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.
DICK GREGORYWhen I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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 wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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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 never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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