Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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.
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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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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 never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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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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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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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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