Harry Belafonte

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly…

— Harry Belafonte

I come from a sense of struggle, a sense of using the instruments that were given to me to manipulate the environment…

— Harry Belafonte

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

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in…

— Harry Belafonte

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects…

— Harry Belafonte

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

— Harry Belafonte

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

— Harry Belafonte

There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those…

— Harry Belafonte

I think there's no city quite like New York, and I've seen most of the developed cities of the world. I admire…

— Harry Belafonte

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…

— Harry Belafonte

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future…

— Harry Belafonte

When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and…

— Harry Belafonte

We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,…

— Harry Belafonte

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

— Harry Belafonte

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

Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they…

— Harry Belafonte

I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and…

— Harry Belafonte

Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were…

— Harry Belafonte

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

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

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

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies,…

— Harry Belafonte

When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to…

— Harry Belafonte

All too often, I'm sorry to say, I relegated my family to the cracks and margins.

— Harry Belafonte

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in…

— Harry Belafonte