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
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.
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.
time age want
At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.
ocean water syrup
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.
teacher
Don't agonise, organise.
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.
peace organize
Don't agonize, organize.
teacher ambition brain
... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
country disease dollars
The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.
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.
pain suffering way
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.
trying arms helping
Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.
marriage body married
prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married ...