One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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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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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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I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete’s feet don’t exist, there’s something wrong.
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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 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 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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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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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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When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.
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