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.
DICK GREGORYThere’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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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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