5 Great Political Speeches – That Aren’t from MLK (TAP)

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2. Shirley Chrisholm
Presidential Campaign Announcement, 1972

Before Hillary Clinton’s popular run for president, another passionate woman contender in the African-American community declared her presidential candidacy. Her powerful 1972 speech was just one of Shirley Chrisholm’s oratorical gifts to the world.

Excerpt:

“The hour has come when we can be no longer be the passive recipients of whatever the politics or the morals of a nation may decree for us as a people.”

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