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.
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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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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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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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