Florynce Kennedy
Florynce Kennedy
Florynce Rae "Flo" Kennedywas an American lawyer, activist, civil rights advocate, lecturer and feminist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 February 1916
CountryUnited States of America
country disease dollars
The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.
teacher ambition brain
... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
peace organize
Don't agonize, organize.
mistake gun thinking
I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.
differences catching social-change
There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.
sibling office political
Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression.
teacher
Don't agonise, organise.
men thinking fifty
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
time age want
At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.
racism people racist
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
crazy thinking feet
I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
self-esteem people mystery
I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
people black minorities
Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.
airports people doe
What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.