Florynce Kennedy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Unnecessary #Oppression #Individual
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Sex #Pregnancy #Men
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Asking #Garbage #Lawyer
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Hate #Thinking #Missing
Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Peace #Freedom #Baths
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Fitness Motivational #Sitting #Sin
Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my ***** are in or out of a bra.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Pigs #Eyelashes #Style
I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Self Esteem #People #Mystery
Don't agonize, organize.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Peace #Organize
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#People #Black #Minorities
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Two #Feet #People
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Peace #Coffee #Dirty
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Racism #People #Racist
At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Time #Age #Want
I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Establishment
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 trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Peace #Fun #Winning
Don't agonise, organise.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Teacher
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Depression #Moving #Daddy
I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Teamwork #Fall #House
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Ocean #Water #Syrup
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

#Men #Law #Two
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.
-- Florynce Kennedy

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

#Men #Thinking #Fifty

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