When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
DICK GREGORYWhen you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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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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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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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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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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 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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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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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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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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