I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
DICK GREGORYBeing white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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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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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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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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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Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
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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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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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