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I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.

Dick Gregory

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Acceptance Difficult People Truth
Just being a Negro doesn’t qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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Doctor Race Sick Understand Yourself
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
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Animal Human Life Tolerance
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
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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Book Greatness History Thinking Victory Win
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance because you don’t have the spirit to judge someone from within, you’re in trouble.
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Appearance Deep Judgement Person Spirit Yourself
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
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Home Myself People
I used to get letters saying, ‘I didn’t know black children and white children were the same.’
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Black Children Myself Oppression
I tell people, ‘If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.’
DICK GREGORY

Home Myself People
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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Beginning Forget Marriage Politics Promise Relationship
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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Black Enjoyment Man Myself
They told me there was very little racial prejudice in Hawaii. Like a woman is just a little bit pregnant.
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Myself Pregnant Woman
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don’t have the ability to be lovable.
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Ability Danger Deep Love Yourself
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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Belief Explanation Myself
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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Children Destroy Father Hands Man Wind Woman World
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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Food Myself People Quick Soul
There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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Force God Live Willing Yourself
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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Happiness Learning Oneself People Secret
When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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Justice Right Rise Truth
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
DICK GREGORY

Music Myself Poet
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.
DICK GREGORY

Believe Breathe Human Light Live Morning Myself Sun
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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Eat Food Myself Oppression People Right Time
It’s cool to be healthy.
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Health Instagram Captions One Liner
I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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Country Friendship Mindset Myself Pay
Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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Goodness Laugh Myself People Value
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
DICK GREGORY

Believe Explanation Myself Philosophy
Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
DICK GREGORY

Home Place

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn’t have what I wanted.

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