Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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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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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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