People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by lifestyle. If you change the lifestyle, those conditions will leave.
DICK GREGORYEducation means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
More Dick Gregory Quotes
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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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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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Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.
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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.
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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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When you shoot right and truth and justice down, the more right and truth and justice will rise up.
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When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
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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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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, ‘I’ve been gypped,’ or, ‘He welshed on the deal.’
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