If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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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 never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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If 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.
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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 you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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