Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
DICK GREGORYEvery door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I 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.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Makes you wonder. When I left St. Louis, I was making five dollars a night. Now I’m getting $5,000 a week — for saying the same things out loud I used to say under my breath.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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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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Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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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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