When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
DICK GREGORYEven though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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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 tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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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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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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