Shirley Chisholm Quotes
Everyone else is represented in Washington by a powerful lobby ... But there is no lobby for the people.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
Shirley A. Chisholm, U. S. Congresswoman (Democrat, NY), Unbought and Unbossed, 1970
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The WWI veterans lobby was formed and they pressured Congress into authorizing a bonus of between $1 and $1.25 for each day of wartime service. However, the catch was that they would not be paid until 1945 unless they did, Hence the name for the bonus. The Bonus March on Washington would eventually march on Washington to get their pay while they were still alive. Finally, the bonuses were paid immediately after Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed the Presidency even though he personally opposed paying it early. Congress passed the law over his veto.
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The CHP is the oldest political party in Turkey. The great Turkish refomer, Ataturk, the first President of Turkey, represented this party. He modernized and cleaned up what was a backward and corrupt country and although there was little bloodshed in the massive cultural transformation, it was very much a top down revolution where the people, like most people, did not welcome radical changes to their society and way of life. Ataturk gave women the vote, imposed compulsory education for both genders, established a parliamentary system, banned traditional garb, and even forced a language change, shifting from the Arabic alphabet to the European Latin Alphabet. Most opposed however was his complete separation of church and state and the transformation of Turkey into a sectarian nation from what had been a theological dictatorship where the Sultan was the absolute ruler of the state and of the Muslim religion.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, representing New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford-Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In the 1972 United States presidential election, she became the first African-American candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
