Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
DICK GREGORYI used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don’t know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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The only good thing about the good old days is they’re gone.
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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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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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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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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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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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Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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