Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
DICK GREGORYEverything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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 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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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