There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: jobs gender discrimination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Florynce Kennedy Florynce Rae Kennedy (February 11, 1916 – December 21, 2000) was an American lawyer, radical feminist, civil rights advocate, lecturer, and activist.
More quotations from Florynce Kennedy Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it? —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: nobility marriage motherhood welfare Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Don't agonize. Organize. —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: progress organization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it? —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: nobility marriage motherhood welfare Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't agonize. Organize. —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: progress organization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “discrimination” Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? —Zora Neale Hurston More about this quote Tags: pleasure surprise anger discrimination denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I still say black. I say it because . . . African American . . . doesn't make your life any easier. You don't see black people . . . saying, "Oh yeah, African American. Man, I'll tell ya, this beats the hell outta being black." . . . You don't see any of us going into Bank of America [saying], "Excuse me, I'm here to pick up my loan." . . . You were rejected for that loan last week." . . . "I was black then. See, I'm African American now. I'll just go in the vault and take what I need. —Wanda Sykes More about this quote Tags: America naming discrimination blackness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Contrary to today's stereotypes, racists do not always chew tobacco and drive pickup trucks with gun racks. They wear silk shirts, treat women as possessions, and talk about human rights at cocktail parties far from communities of people of color. The men in pickup trucks are just as likely to be warm and caring as the high-minded liberals are to be racists. —Wilma Mankiller More about this quote Tags: racism caring discrimination racists human rights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. —Carl T. Rowan More about this quote Tags: fools race discrimination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. —Bella Abzug More about this quote Tags: struggle gender discrimination brilliance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? —Zora Neale Hurston More about this quote Tags: pleasure surprise anger discrimination denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I still say black. I say it because . . . African American . . . doesn't make your life any easier. You don't see black people . . . saying, "Oh yeah, African American. Man, I'll tell ya, this beats the hell outta being black." . . . You don't see any of us going into Bank of America [saying], "Excuse me, I'm here to pick up my loan." . . . You were rejected for that loan last week." . . . "I was black then. See, I'm African American now. I'll just go in the vault and take what I need. —Wanda Sykes More about this quote Tags: America naming discrimination blackness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Contrary to today's stereotypes, racists do not always chew tobacco and drive pickup trucks with gun racks. They wear silk shirts, treat women as possessions, and talk about human rights at cocktail parties far from communities of people of color. The men in pickup trucks are just as likely to be warm and caring as the high-minded liberals are to be racists. —Wilma Mankiller More about this quote Tags: racism caring discrimination racists human rights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. —Carl T. Rowan More about this quote Tags: fools race discrimination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. —Bella Abzug More about this quote Tags: struggle gender discrimination brilliance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email