Florynce Kennedy Quotes

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• The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
• Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the…
• Don't agonise, organise.
• 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…
• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
• 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.
• When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive
• 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.
• 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…
• The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
• If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
• Don't agonize, organize.
• Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
• Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if…
• You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause…

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