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.
DICK GREGORYIn most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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