Force Quote by Dick Gregory

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

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My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you…

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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…

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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…

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Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

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

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I am one of the funniest people on the planet.

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“Dear Momma―Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book.”

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The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

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Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

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I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

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People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a…

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The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;…

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

Judith Ellen Foster

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding…

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History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

Angela Merkel

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It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced…

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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…

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I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

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The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Adolf Hitler

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Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

Joseph Stalin

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Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by…

Vladimir Lenin