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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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"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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"Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned."
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"I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country."
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"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."
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