Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which a…

- Dick Gregory

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

- Dick Gregory

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

- Dick Gregory

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 risin…

- Dick Gregory

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

- Dick Gregory

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

- Dick Gregory

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

- Dick Gregory

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

- Dick Gregory

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

- Dick Gregory