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"Help us or get out of the way."

"We knew that there could be no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy. "

The congresswoman knew she was on the right side of history when she called out President Nixon and his administration for offering billions of dollars in funding to the Department of Defense while simultaneously gutting Head Start

As Chisholm described it there was a "machismo group of Black men who felt that a Black woman had no business running for president. How dare she take a Black man's spot? How dare a woman get in our way?"

"The press is so powerful in its image making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press."

Chisholm believed that money from special interest groups and money from a candidate's personal store of wealth should be banned. In order to give power to the people dark money had no place in politics.

"Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. When Black women win victories it is a boost for virtually every segment of society. "