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Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
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Richard Claxton Gregory
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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.
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Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.
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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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Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
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The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?
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I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
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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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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
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Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.
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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 consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.
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Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.
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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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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.
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I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is most folk really don’t have choices.
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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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