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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Dick Gregory

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
DICK GREGORY

Beginning Forget Politics Promise Relationship
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We’re the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
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Oneself Secret Yourself
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
Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.
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Children Oppression Race
And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
DICK GREGORY

Dance Love War
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
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Attachment Deep Loss Rich
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Angry Hell
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
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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Athlete Citizenship Greatness Myself Wrong
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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Enough Father Goodness Help Mom Yourself
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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Myself Result Wait
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.
DICK GREGORY

Death Live Mom Myself Yourself
If it wasn’t for Abe Lincoln, I’d still be on the open market.
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Myself Poor
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.
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Believe Breathe Human Light Live Morning Myself Sun
When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
DICK GREGORY

Justice Right Rise Truth

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