Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
Dick GregoryRead
Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
Interpretation
Fear and faith cannot coexist; having faith in God helps eliminate fear.
This quote by Dick Gregory emphasizes the idea that fear and faith, particularly faith in God, are mutually exclusive. When one has strong faith, fear diminishes, allowing individuals to act with courage and confidence in the face of challenges, suggesting that embracing spirituality can lead to a more fearless existence.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech on overcoming fears.
Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.
We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.
In my darkest days in the oncology unit, I promised myself that if I ever got into remission one day, I would become a stronger, healthier and better version of my precancer self.
You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
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