When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
DICK GREGORYI tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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