I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
DICK GREGORYIn 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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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.
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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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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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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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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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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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