You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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More Dick Gregory Quotes
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford 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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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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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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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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