179 Quotes by Dick Gregory
"America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet."
"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."
"Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge."
"Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on."
"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?"
"I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man."
"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."