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Chisholm from the forty minute documentary called Pursuing the Dream (1972) By Bob Denby and Tom Werner.

Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm speaks to a group of campaign workers.

“Sure, if Mrs. Chisholm is not able to achieve the nomination, why should I be running all over, trying to get a delegate in one state and three in another, six in another. What is she doing? What is she up to? The fact of the matter is we cannot continue to take things, as they are, when we see around us that government is not responsive to certain segments of the population.

And even if I am not able to achieve the nomination, to extent that I go to that convention with delegate strength, delegate strength. Because, that’s the name of the game. You can go to the convention, you can yell, ‘womanpower here I come.’ You can yell, ‘black power, here I come.’ ‘White power.’ Any kind of thing. The only thing those hard-nosed Washington types are going to understand at the convention: how many delegates you got?"

We have to show them, that we can only do this is through a coalition, through a coalition, like all of us in here. But we can’t do it alone, blacks can’t do it alone. Indians can’t do it alone, all of us will never, whose advise the councils have never sought, will put together a coalition that will translate itself into delegates. Because if you have that straight, then you can say, are you black for Vice President, a woman for head of ATW, an Indian for the head of the department of interior. And all of your heads of departments, your heads of agencies, your ambassadorships, your council-ships, all of these different positions will be reflected of the different kinds of peoples that are found in the America. Not just one exclusive domain.

And if we’re be able to do that, it really, believe it or not, in no time, people, just people in America, the Indian, the woman, the black will feel that…God…the American dream is coming true. That’s all I’m trying to do."