Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
DICK GREGORY
I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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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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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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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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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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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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