Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
DICK GREGORYThey told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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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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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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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn’t it either. I’m going to be an American Citizen. First-class.
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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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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 am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp – just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.
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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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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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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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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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