Florynce Kennedy Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Asking, Garbage, Lawyer

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• Don't agonise, organise.

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  Teacher

  "Florynce Kennedy" by Margaret Busby, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2001.

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

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  Thinking, Men, Fifty

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

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  Teacher, Ambition, Brain

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Gun, Thinking

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

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  Country, Dollars, Disease

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• 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.

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  Racism, People, Racist

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• 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.

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  Airports, People, Doe

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

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  Trying, Arms, Helping

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• Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

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  Peace, Coffee, Dirty

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• 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 pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

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  Depression, Moving, Daddy

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

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  Real, Racism, Mind

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• 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.

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  People, Black, Minorities

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

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  Differences, Catching, Social Change

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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