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• In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence.

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  Father, Independence, United States

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• America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

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  America, Giving, Black History

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• No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

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  Taken, Home, Kids

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

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  Rights, Justice, Diversity

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• 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.

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  Eye, Blood, Water

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• When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

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  People, Stealing, Force

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

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  Years, White, Restaurants

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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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  Race, Medicine, Sick

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• I chose to be an agitator. And there's one interesting thing about being an agitator - and I tell people - the next time you put your underwear in the washing machine, take the agitator out, and all you're going to end up with is some dirty, wet drawers.

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  Dirty, People, Interesting

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

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  Blood, People, Style

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• 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.

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  Book, Thinking, Roots

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

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  Moving, Race, May

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• I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese.
  I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese.
  I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian.
  How come in America Jesus looks white?

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  Christian, Jesus, White

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• I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

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  Christmas, Dark, White

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• ...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

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  Running, Dog, Zebras

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• If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Brother, Writing

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

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  Son, Color, Hair

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• What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

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  White, Black, Today

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• My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.

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  Dog, Boys, Years

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

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  Way, Kind, Enough

  "Man who taped beating to be extradited" by Charles Feldman, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2002.

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• In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.

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  Long, Mind, Bigs

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• Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

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  Song, White, Grace

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• If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

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  Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol, Drug

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• White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

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  School, College, Garden

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

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  Giving, Force, Will To Live

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