Florynce Kennedy Quotes

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

I was sitting by Dr. Franklin who perceived that I was not insensitive to these mutilations.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

In a place of pain, there is space for everyone.