The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
DICK GREGORYI am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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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 never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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