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  • The unbossed are a brave group, willing to learn about new things off the beaten track.

    unbossed.com 2009

  • This post from unbossed has a good overview of the different concerns, and links to other groups that work on this issue.

    The Marcellus Shale - Your Shi Poo Pi! aka TBTAM 2008

  • Dennis Wolff, according to unbossed. com, is being considered for Obama's USDA Secretary.

    Jeffrey Smith: Obama's Team Includes Dangerous Biotech "Yes Men" 2009

  • Look, back in 1972, when I voted for the first time, my presidential choice was for "unbought and unbossed" Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to be elected to Congress.

    Howard Wolinsky: Waiting for Obama at No. 10 Downing 2008

  • Brazile said she did it “for unbought and unbossed Shirley Chisholm; for Barbara Jordan, the first black woman to headline a major party convention; and for Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman Ohio sent to Congress.”

    Women’s Equality Day @ Convention « AAUW Dialog 2008

  • Shirley Chisholm, 80Styling herself "unbought and unbossed," Chisholm was the first black woman in Congress and the first African-American, period, to seek the presidential nomination.

    Unforgettable 2007

  • An activist, a rabblerouser, and - as the title of her book aptly noted - "unbought and unbossed," she was, in the words of Shakespeare, an "unruly woman."

    The late, great Shirley Chisholm Amazonfemme 2005

  • An activist, a rabblerouser, and - as the title of her book aptly noted - "unbought and unbossed," she was, in the words of Shakespeare, an "unruly woman."

    Archive 2005-01-01 Amazonfemme 2005

  • I had taken the first, the hardest step, toward the realization of my dream of real political power, -- to become an unbossed boss, not the agent and servant of Plutocracy or Partizanship, but using both to further my own purposes and plans.

    The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Not quite as unbossed as when they sent me on the Harris farm last summer, and I slept in the stable if I wanted to, and nobody asked if I'd taken a bath.

    The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors William Dean Howells 1878

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