If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
DICK GREGORYYou know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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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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People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn’t a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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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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Revolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don’t have choices.
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