Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
DICK GREGORYEducation means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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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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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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