Harry Belafonte Quotes

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• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy…
• You can cage the singer but not the song.
• Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
• Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to…
• Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
• Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will…
• I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will…
• These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the…
• Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that…
• If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship…
• No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not…
• We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
• There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived…
• I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth…
• Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to…
• The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.
• I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor,
• Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. [If]…
• I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly…
• Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

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