When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
DICK GREGORYI believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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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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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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