Florynce Rae “Flo” Kennedy (1916–2000) was an American lawyer, activist, civil rights advocate, lecturer and feminist. Kennedy was born in Kansas City to an African-American family. Her father Wiley Kennedy was a Pullman porter, and later had a taxi business. The second of her parents’ five daughters, she had a happy childhood, full of support from her parents, despite experiencing poverty in the Great Depression and racism in her mostly white neighborhood. The Ku Klux Klan being present in her neighborhood, Kennedy remembered a time in her neighborhood with her father having to be armed with a shotgun in order to ward off the Klan who was trying to drive her family out of the neighbourhood. She later commented: “My parents gave us a fantastic sense of security and worth. By the time the bigots got around to telling us that we were nobody, we already knew we were somebody.”
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Don’t agonize. Organize.
—Florynce Kennedy
Topics: Injury
Freedom is like taking a bath—you have to keep doing it every day!
—Florynce Kennedy
Topics: Freedom
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
—Florynce Kennedy
Topics: Procrastination, Inaction, Getting Going
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
—Florynce Kennedy
Topics: Birth, Pregnancy
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
—Florynce Kennedy
Topics: Sex
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
Topics: Racism
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