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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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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Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
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The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.
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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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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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If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.
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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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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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So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.
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A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.