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Dick Gregory

"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."

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"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."

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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

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"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them."

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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."

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"I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events."

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"Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is."

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"I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?"

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"Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?"

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