The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
DICK GREGORYMy belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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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 wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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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 you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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