Dick Gregory Quotations | Page 2

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.

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.

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

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian. How come in America Jesus looks white?

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

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.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

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.

You're looking at something that is going to revolutionize the whole world.

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.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.