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.
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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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet.
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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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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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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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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 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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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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