"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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Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

Dick Gregory

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“Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.”
“I'm the most loyal player money can buy.”
“My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.”

Source : "Action Bronson in the Lap of Luxury". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.
“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”
“Parents should be the most important examples for their children.”
“One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our conception of all lives matters. And it was really was true for them, that certain lives matter a lot more than others. It didn't dawn on them that all lives, although different, can be lives of equal mattering. And that is actually something a huge ethical lesson.”
“I almost never shoot people.”
“The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.”

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