American - Musician | March 1, 1927 -
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
Harry Belafonte
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I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They were not passing fancies. They are something that is, and will be, listened to again and again. I have a space of reverence for some of those old jazz stars such as Sydney Bechet and Louis Armstrong.
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Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.
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The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.
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I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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