Dick Gregory America Quotations

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.

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

We do not believe, had he been white, that he would be dead. And when we black folks say to America that we're not going to tolerate it, it's going to stop.

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.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.