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.
DICK GREGORYOne of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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You know, I always say white is not a color, white is an attitude, and if you haven’t got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don’t need, you can’t be white.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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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 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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If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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