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“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Happiness #Helping Others #People
“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.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Judging #Spirit #Trouble
“In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Country #America #Evil
“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

#Country #Believe #Thinking
“I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Hate #Home #School
“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.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Mean #Hip Hop #Revolution
“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

#Pain #Animal #Blood
“I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Years #White #Restaurants
“America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.”
-- Dick Gregory

#America #Giving #Black History
“Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”
-- Dick Gregory

#White #People #Lasts
“No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Taken #Home #Kids
“Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Race #Medicine #Sick
“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Book #Thinking #Roots
“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

#Blood #People #Style
“Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Mind #Poverty #Poor
“When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!”
-- Dick Gregory

#People #Stealing #Force
“The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.”
-- Dick Gregory

#People #Accepting #Obvious
“If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Eye #Blood #Water
“If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Funny Sarcastic #Alcohol #Drug
“Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Mean #Justice #Social Justice
“Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Mother #Kings #Taught
“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

#Funny #Military #Army
“Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.”
-- Dick Gregory

#People #Looks #Should
“I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Christmas #Dark #White
“Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Love Is #Lovable #Dangerous
“...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.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Running #Dog #Zebras
“Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.”
-- Dick Gregory

#People #Laughing #Very Good
“My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Belief #Certain
“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Mom #Mother #Father
“In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.”
-- Dick Gregory

#Sports #Country #Voting

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