In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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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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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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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