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FLO KENNEDY

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“I feel that in a society where there is institutionalized oppression, the thing is to catch government and business in the grass—actually humping, you know. Forming a picket line or organizing a demonstration is not going to change the whole society, but there are cases in which it’s the sort of thing one ought to do. Every so often one just has to put one’s bucket down where one is…

“ ‘Revolutionary’ doesn’t always mean that you’re cocking a gun. Revolutionary means that you go precisely the opposite of the way the establishment had you programmed. Those of us who are unimaginative, unskilled, untutored must do routine things as putting our lives on the line. That’s not real revolution. That’s masochism. True revolutionary activity, in my opinion, is that which hurts the establishment without undue damage to the person who does the revolutionary act.” — Florynce “Flo” Kennedy*

*Quote in Richard Avedon, The Sixties, interviews by Doon Arbus (New York: Random House, 1999).

avedonfoundation.org/the-sixties

SHERIE M. RANDOLPH

FLORYNCE “FLO” KENNEDY: THE LIFE OF A BLACK FEMINIST RADICAL

(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018 paperback edition).

uncpress.org/florynce-flo-kennedy/

“Never pose for a photograph where everyone in the photograph is white.” — Gloria Steinem, to USC students in 2016.
From left: Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kennedy, Steinem, and Kate Millett in 1977. Photograph by Bettye Lane / UNC Press.
What's missing from this book? Pioneering black feminist Flo Kennedy's blazing personality

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