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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Dick Gregory
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Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
Athletics Competitor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Entrepreneur
Politician
Social Activist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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Audiences feel no hatred from me. Because I'm not bitter.
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Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.
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Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
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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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Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
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Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
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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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If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.
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Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.
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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.
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The world is fed by greed.
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Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?
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Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
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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?
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I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.
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I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
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You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.
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In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
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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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