dick gregory

“ Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ”

“ I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years... When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted. ”

“ I have no regrets. ”

“ Here's how you can tell when you're getting old. When someone compliments those beautiful alligator shoes you're wearing and you're barefooted. ”

“ In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago, its a sport. ”

“ I was more interested in how my career could help the movement. ”

“ When I was a kid, you dropped something off the table, it never reached the floor. ”

“ The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone. ”

“ I'm non-violent, but I'm damned if Ill preach non-violence to a man whose five-year-old daughter has got her head busted open by a brick. ”

“ Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. ”