When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
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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 are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.Dick Gregory
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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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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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