two evils this time, in order that we will not have to make a selection between tweedle dee and tweedle dum." chisholm said she decided to tweedle dee and tweedle dum." chisholm said she decided to run hopeless odds, she faced both racial and gender barriers.to dl and refusal to accept the status qho. "i realize this is a rough road, but a catalyst for change in society is usually persona non grata with those who have been the beneficiaries of the system. a catalyst for change has to be able to stand the insults, the humiliation, the abuses and the slurs." chisholm ran a largely grass was ethnically diverse, with endorsements coming from leaders of all civil movements, including, not surprisingly, the leading feminists of the da"the bosses, the pollsters, te analysts are still analyzing in terms of '68, even in terms fo the 1930s and they don't understand that something new is happening in america, and this campaign, the shirley chisholm campaign, is the note of the new politics." "unofrtunately, the press has often followed that kind of old shirley chisholm has not got the breadth and the