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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.
― Dick Gregory
African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017) -
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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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.
― Dick Gregory
African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017) -
Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
― Dick Gregory
African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017) -
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
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I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.
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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
― Dick Gregory
African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017) -
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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