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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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Dick Gregory
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 12
Died: 2017
Died: August 19
Athletics Competitor
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Comedian
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St. Louis
Missouri
Richard Claxton Gregory
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