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Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York’s 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first African-American woman elected to Congress. On January 25, 1972, she became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.”

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Romney supporters speak up at Ohio rally [video]

This is horrifying.

This all sort of sounds like Doctor Who where no one knew what Saxon stood for but apparently it was good.

This is what I live with, you guys.

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i’m speechless.

I have to reblog this.

How are these people allowed to be in politics? I am all for free speech, but it should be free speech unless you are cunt.

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