Showing posts with label Shirley Chisholm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shirley Chisholm. Show all posts

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Quote of the Day (Shirley Chisholm, on Morality and Profit)

“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”—Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), U.S. Representative (D-NY), Presidential candidate and civil-rights activist, in Unbought and Unbossed (1970)

The image accompanying this post, of Rep. Shirley Chisholm announcing her Presidential candidacy, was taken Jan. 25, 1972, by Thomas J. O'Halloran of U.S. News and World Reports.