Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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 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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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn’t stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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.
DICK GREGORY