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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.
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Loserism is when oppressed people sit around and think up reasons why they can't do something. Well just do it. Thinking up reasons why you can't is the Establishment's job.
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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.
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We don't say a word when Madison Avenue makes millions off us, but we get all resentful and suspicious when somebody in the Movement gets attention or makes a dime.That's Nigger Nobility. If you have to lose to prove you're a good person, we won't get anywhere.
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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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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.
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Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?
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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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In a jockocratic society, you can turn on the TV and find out the score of some basketball game in Alaska — but you can't find out how many states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. You can turn on the radio, and hear every score in the country repeated all day long — but you don't hear how many women died from illegal abortions.
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I don't practice law much anymore. Even if you're honest, the law is still a one-ass-at-a-time proposition — and what we have to do is stop the wringer.
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I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.
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Most lawyers are like whores. They serve the client who puts the highest fee on the table. The biggest law firms serve the richest johns.
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The innocence of good people is inexcusable. Naivete is a luxury only the pigocrats can afford.
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My parents gave us a fantastic sense of security and worth. By the time the bigots got around to telling us we were nobody, we already knew we were somebody.
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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.
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Divide and conquer — that's what they try to do to any group trying to make social change. I call it D&C. Black people are supposed to turn against Puerto Ricans. Women are supposed to turn against their mothers and mothers-in-law. We're all supposed to compete with each other for the favors of the ruling class.
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Florynce Kennedy
Born:
February 11, 1916
Died:
December 22, 2000
(aged 84)
Bio:
Florynce Rae "Flo" Kennedy was an American lawyer, activist, civil rights advocate, lecturer and feminist.
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