Dick Gregory, Comedian And Civil Rights Activist And Icon, Has Died At 84

Gregory, who was often mentioned with Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl as satirists of the first order in the 1960s, at first thought that humor would win over more white people than activism, but gradually changed his mind - and his routine. Still, "it was Mr. Gregory’s conviction that within a well-delivered joke lies power."

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