America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
DICK GREGORYIf 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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