Quote

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.

Dick Gregory

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
Athletics Competitor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Entrepreneur
Politician
Social Activist
Social Critic
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
Problem
Mess
Country
Folks
Believe
Obama
Really
Vote
Think
System
Thinking
Either
Choices
Folk
Young
Voters

More quotes by Dick Gregory

Image
I would have painted the White House black. I would have!
Dick Gregory
Image
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
Dick Gregory
Image
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.
Dick Gregory
Image
America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.
Dick Gregory
Image
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
Dick Gregory
Image
Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.
Dick Gregory
Image
A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.
Dick Gregory
Image
I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country
Dick Gregory
Image
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.
Dick Gregory
Image
You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.
Dick Gregory
Image
What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.
Dick Gregory
Image
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'?
Dick Gregory
Image
In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.
Dick Gregory
Image
Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.
Dick Gregory
Image
I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.
Dick Gregory
Image
Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?
Dick Gregory
Image
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?
Dick Gregory
Image
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
Dick Gregory
Image
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
Dick Gregory
Image
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.
Dick Gregory