Florynce Kennedy Quotes


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.

I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions the church and the law court the men are wearing the dresses.

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

Don't agonize organize.

If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.

prostitutes don't sell their bodies they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

Being a mother is a noble status right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water then things would begin to change.

There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

Don't agonise organise.

Now see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls you'd think I was an oyster.

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

... tobacco kills 52 000 people a year from lung cancer and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But to my knowledge no one has ever died of a blow job.

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

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.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.