My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an …

Shirley Chisholm
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference. ✨ Shirley Chisholm (2010). Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition, p.148, Take Root Media
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