If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
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… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
To really know what progress we’re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I don't find inspiration on Wall Street. I don't find that in Beverly Hills. I don't find that in places where opportunity… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to… — 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 Image
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
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 Image
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
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 Image
