When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
DICK GREGORYIn 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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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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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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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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