Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregoryis an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, and comedian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth12 October 1932
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
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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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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.
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Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
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The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
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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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You're looking at something that is going to revolutionize the whole world.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
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I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.
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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
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We do not believe, had he been white, that he would be dead. And when we black folks say to America that we're not going to tolerate it, it's going to stop.