Florynce Kennedy Quotes

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

... this is a grievance society and that if you want to get into its leading edge you pretty well have to be a victim.

At what point do the oppressed become the oppressors?

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.

The further away you get from being a straight white man, the less freedoms you have to figure out who you are and negotiate what you mean to society.

Only a straight white person would have no concept of what visibility is. They've never contended with anything but visibility.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences - often fatal ones - that result from the toxic combination of misogyny, racism, and anti-trans sentiment.