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.
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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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