When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
DICK GREGORYIn most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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 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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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