I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORYIf it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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