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Harry Belafonte Quotes

American - Musician | March 1, 1927 -

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression.

Harry Belafonte

Mother Children Purpose Road Face

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

Harry Belafonte

Art Me Always Activism Something

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

Harry Belafonte

You Right Counsel Arrested Charged

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.

Harry Belafonte

Walls American Go Oppression Africa

The Ku Klux Klan, for some of us, is a constant - has a constant existence. It isn't until it touches certain aspects of white America that white America all of the sudden wakes up to the fact that there is something called the Klan and that it does its mischief.

Harry Belafonte

America White Existence Up Something

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a par, or even above, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.

Harry Belafonte

Stand American Way Up Above Even

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

Harry Belafonte

Family Sorry Say Cracks Margins Too

What makes a movement work are thousands of parts that come together and express itself in favor of a given destination or objective. You have to find men and women who are willing to play the role that each of these things demand.

Harry Belafonte

Work Women Men Together Destination

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

Truth Power People Selfish Think

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

Harry Belafonte

Terrorism Oppression Fascism

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

Harry Belafonte

Generosity Spirit United Been Much

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.

Harry Belafonte

Community My Own Right Always Own

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