There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
DICK GREGORYIf it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
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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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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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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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