Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

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

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

Harry Belafonte
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 that the only way to end wars is to have no military and to find other ways in which - I think we should suspend all nuclear weapons.

Harry Belafonte
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 of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there's no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we've lost, we will forever be distracted with possessions and trinkets and title.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

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

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

I knew Charlie Parker, and he gave us such a gift with his music. He put so much into so little space, and it was tragic that he died so young.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

America has never been moved to perfect our desire for greater democracy without radical thinking and radical voices being at the helm of any such quest.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

When I was 20 and 30, my visions for what the world would be, all things were possible.

Harry Belafonte
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 this city from all of its social arcs. The best that's in America is yet to come. The worst that's in America is yet to come.

Harry Belafonte
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 this place, its energy. It's the repository of so much history and culture and diversity.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

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

Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte

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

Harry Belafonte
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 community.