Dick Gregory Quotes

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Rich is not better.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.

Rich clubs, where money doesn't matter... such clubs don't interest me.

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.