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I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#had #hate #home #i #learned

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#between #candidate #forgotten #like #made

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

— Dick Gregory

#eleven #finally #i #integrated #restaurant

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#american #any #bald #because #bellies

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#back #blood #born #brown #buy

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. ↗

— William Greider

#how #people #reflected #relate #remind

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others. ↗

— William Greider

#done #everyone #others #tolerate #values

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. ↗

— William Greider

#crime #deeds #deregulated #does #finance

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare. ↗

— William Greider

#could #diligent #either #enough #even

I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people. ↗

— Tony Greig

#business #business community #community #employed #genocide