18 Quotations by Dick Gregory
- 1. America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

- 2. America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misus ...

- 3. And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you ...

- 4. Civil Rights: what black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil ...

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

- 6. Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

- 7. I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after d ...

- 8. If a man calls me a nigger, he is calling me something I am not. The nigger exists only in his own m ...

- 9. In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sp ...

- 10. Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick mak ...

- 11. Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch you ...

- 12. One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people ...

- 13. Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

- 14. We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a g ...

- 15. We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the hist ...

- 16. What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his so ...

- 17. When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

- 18. Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always ...

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