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
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
Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense… — 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
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
When I go across the country, whether it's Albuquerque, New Mexico, whether it's Birmingham, Alabama or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there are always forces… — 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
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
