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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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
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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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Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.
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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 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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If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
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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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Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.
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I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.