Dick Gregory Quotes - Page 3

• Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.

  Dick Gregory

  Niños, Niños, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.chicagotribune.com

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• America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

  Dick Gregory

  Moon, Reality, America

  Dick Gregory (1972). “No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Cuando perdí mi fusil, el Ejército me cobró 85 dólares. Por eso en la Marina el capitán se hunde con el barco.

  Dick Gregory

  Funny, Military, Responsibility

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• No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.

  Dick Gregory

  Should, Unloved

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• Fui a Etiopía y me di cuenta de que se puede distinguir a una persona hambrienta y desnutrida porque tiene el vientre hinchado y la cabeza calva. Y me di cuenta de que si entras en cualquier aeropuerto estadounidense y ves a hombres de negocios corriendo con el vientre hinchado y la cabeza calva, eso también es malnutrición.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Airports, Romance

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• The world is fed by greed.

  Dick Gregory

  Greed, World, Feds

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". NewsOK Interview, newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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• [A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

  Dick Gregory

  Art, Office, Compromise

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."

  Dick Gregory

  College, People, Giving

  Fuente: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

  Dick Gregory

  Country, Mind, Friendly

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• There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

  Dick Gregory

  Information, Limits

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• The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.

  Dick Gregory

  Stuff, Jokes, Knows

  "Talking to Dick Gregory: Comedy, Selma and Cosby". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 10, 2015.

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• Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?

  Dick Gregory

  Black, Done, Want

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• En la mayoría de los lugares del país, votar se considera un derecho y un deber, pero en Chicago es un deporte.

  Dick Gregory

  Sports, Country, Voting

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

  Dick Gregory

  Democracy, Good Things, Ifs

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• Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

  Dick Gregory

  Mother, Kings, Taught Us

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• Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

  Dick Gregory

  Money, Eye, Dollars

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• Si no fuera por Abe Lincoln, todavía estaría en el mercado abierto.

  Dick Gregory

  Abe, Stills, Ifs

  "From the Back of the Bus" by Dick Gregory, (p. 7), 1962.

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• Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

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  Funny, Dog, Feelings

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

  Dick Gregory

  Mean, Hip Hop, Revolution

  "Thesource.Com Interview With Dick Gregory". Interview with Walford Guillaume, thesource.com. January 16, 2012.

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• You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

  Dick Gregory

  Pay, Dies, Ifs

  "Dick Gregory Pioneered Using Comedy as a Weapon Against Racism" by Marc H. Morial, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2017.

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• Cada día festivo en el calendario, me registro en un hotel y ayuno: no como, no bebo, no hablo.

  Dick Gregory

  Holiday, Calendars, Drink

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• Pensábamos que iba a ser un gran atleta, y nos equivocamos, y yo pensaba que iba a ser un gran artista, y tampoco fue así. Voy a ser un ciudadano americano. De primera clase.

  Dick Gregory

  Athlete, Class, Firsts

  "Dick Gregory, pioneering US comedian and activist, dies aged 84" by The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2017.

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• Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

  Dick Gregory

  Dark, Pet, Suffering

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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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  Ghetto, Meat, Killing

  Dick Gregory (1968). “The shadow that scares me”

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• I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

  Dick Gregory

  White, House, Black

  "Comedian Dick Gregory says the hot-button issues of the '60s haven't cooled down". newsok.com. April 16, 2015.

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