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Interview with the Chicago Times, Feb. 14, 1881.

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
Source: Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography

“Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“The path of progress is the path we take towards our future.”
Twitter Post 2016 https://twitter.com/_bensontaylor/status/808033605469564929

“Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”
Reported in "Shirley Chisholm Kicks Off Campaign for U.S. Presidency" by Ronald E. Kisner, Jet, Vol. 41, no. 20 (Feb. 1972), p. 12.

As quoted in Wisdom For the Soul of Black Folk https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0977339157, ed. Larry Chang & Roderick Terry, Gnosophia Publishers (2007), p. 117
“The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 105.