When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
DICK GREGORYIf 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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 I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled 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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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