The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
DICK GREGORYWhen you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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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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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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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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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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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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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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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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