Harry Belafonte

Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen…

— Harry Belafonte

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you…

— 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 don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

— 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

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

— 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've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own…

— Harry Belafonte

Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we…

— Harry Belafonte

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I…

— Harry Belafonte

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is…

— Harry Belafonte

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

— Harry Belafonte

I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled…

— Harry Belafonte

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes…

— Harry Belafonte

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

Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that…

— Harry Belafonte

I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis…

— 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

I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I…

— Harry Belafonte

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

— Harry Belafonte

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

— Harry Belafonte

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

— 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

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

— Harry Belafonte

From the point of view of the poor, the hungry, the disenfranchised, the wretched of the Earth... there will never be peace…

— Harry Belafonte

I don't think soldiers should be anywhere in the world. I mean, that is a moral and a basic philosophy. I think…

— 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

I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity…

— Harry Belafonte

Many who have nothing opposed to the few who have everything, and as long as these disparities remain, as long as these…

— Harry Belafonte

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush…

— Harry Belafonte

I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very…

— Harry Belafonte

The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into…

— 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

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

— Harry Belafonte

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me…

— Harry Belafonte

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

I call President Bush a terrorist. I call those around him terrorists as well: Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzales in the Justice Department,…

— Harry Belafonte

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

Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the…

— Harry Belafonte