America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don’t misuse a household pet.
DICK GREGORYEducation means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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.
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When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal it!
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Once I realized the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
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There’s a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.
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If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of 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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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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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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Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother’s milk.
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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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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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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening – there wasn’t no 24-hour news.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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