Dick Gregory: Quotes about learning

Dick Gregory was American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur. Explore interesting quotes on learning.
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“I have experienced personally over the past few years how a purity of diet and thought are interrelated. And when Americans become truly concerned with the purity of the food that enters their own personal systems, when they learn to eat properly, we can expect to see profound changes effected in the social and political system of this nation. The two systems are inseparable.”

Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory's Political Primer (Harper & Row, 1972), p. 262.

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

Dick Gregory

Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)

“The philosophy of nonviolence, which I learned from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during my involvement in the civil rights movement was first responsible for my change in diet. I became a vegetarian in 1965. … Under the leadership of Dr. King I became totally committed to nonviolence, and I was convinced that nonviolence meant opposition to killing in any form. I felt the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” applied to human beings not only in their dealings with each other—war, lynching, assassination, murder and the like—but in their practice of killing animals for food or sport. 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 brutal taking of life.”

Dick Gregory

Source: Dick Gregory's Natural Diet For Folks Who Eat (1973), pp. 15-16