The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
DICK GREGORYIf democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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 personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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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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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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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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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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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