“I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.”

— Shirley Chisholm

Source: Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 37.

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American politician 1924–2005

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