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" I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. "

Dick Gregory

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" It's cool to be healthy. "

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Healthy

Cool

" I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. "

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" Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. "

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Black

Progress

" 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. "

" Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk. "

" 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. "

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" When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship. "

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" Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it. "

" Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. "

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" Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. "

" I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.' "

" People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave. "