Florynce Kennedy Quotes

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

People who are divided are easier to control.

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.

Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.