Dick Gregory

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I meet so many young folks who say, “If I got to go and die in a war at 18, I want the right to vote at 18.” Don’t be no damn fool. You got to die at 18, you better fight to get the right to vote at 17.

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

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.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

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