Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
DICK GREGORYI 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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 go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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