When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
DICK GREGORYRevolution ain’t nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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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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I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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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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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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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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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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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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