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.
DICK GREGORYAnd 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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 am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we were in Mississippi.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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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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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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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