Quotes by Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory

…Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You’d never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don’t often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they’ve captured, and a dog wouldn’t naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

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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.

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A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

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America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn’t get there with entertainers.

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America is 5 percent of the world’s population and consumes 96 percent of the world’s hard drugs.

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

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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

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At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

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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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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

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Quotes by Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory

[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.

A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn’t get there with entertainers.

America is 5 percent of the world’s population and consumes 96 percent of the world’s hard drugs.

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

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

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