Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
America has never been moved to perfect our desire for greater democracy without radical thinking and radical voices being at the helm… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia.… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I think New York City most represents what it is that America in general aspires to. It's big; it's dense. I've known… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
If you want to look at the Monroe Doctrine and what happened when we wrote that, we stated what the business would… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we dance in… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
I became an anti-fascist, and the more I saw what was happening to the peoples of Europe, the Jews, the more I saw the… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen if fascism… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
I knew Charlie Parker, and he gave us such a gift with his music. He put so much into so little space, and it… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share
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