Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
DICK GREGORYWhen 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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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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 tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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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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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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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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