Shirley Chisholm

"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

Suggested Reading: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition by Shirley Chisholm