"I grew up in a school system .……" — Harry Belafonte
"I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted."
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Harry Belafonte
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38 Quotes by Harry Belafonte
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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…
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become…
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Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
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Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health…
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I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind,…
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These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a…
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Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children,…
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If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that…
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No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're…
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We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having…
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