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.
DICK GREGORYYou hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise 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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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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