When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
DICK GREGORYEducation means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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I’m not a comic. I’m a humorist.
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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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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, it’s a sport.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for this, I’d do it for free.’ When’s the last time you ever heard a business person say, ‘If I couldn’t get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I’d do it for free?’
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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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 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 belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that’s never been explained.
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If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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