179 Quotes by Dick Gregory

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.

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.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

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.