Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
DICK GREGORYHell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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I personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
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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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