"Our foreign policy has made a wreck of……" — Harry Belafonte
"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 written on the walls of oppression everywhere."
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38 Quotes by Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte has 38 quotes on this site.
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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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There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality.…
— Bono
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