America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
DICK GREGORYIf 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.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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It’s cool to be healthy.
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I wouldn’t mind paying taxes – if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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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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There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
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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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