Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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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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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 you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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