The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
DICK GREGORYI tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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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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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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