There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of 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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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