In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
DICK GREGORYI personally believe breathatarianism to be the highest mode of human living breathing in pure air, absorbing the direct light and energies of the sun, bathing in pure water I look at the obituaries every morning and ain’t nobody listed but you eaters.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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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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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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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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