One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
DICK GREGORYI tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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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 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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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.
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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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