18 Harry Belafonte Quotes for You to Enjoy

Harry Belafonte

American Musician

Born: Mar 1, 1927

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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy. Harry Belafonte

Democracy Dissent Any Central Bring

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 You Together Women Destination Men Men And Women Favor Willing Find Thousands Objective Given Demand Come Parts Makes Itself Role Movement Who Each Express Play Things

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

Hope Future Justice Peace Our Necessary

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

You Charged Counsel Arrested Right

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

White Constant Some Something Mischief Fact Klan Until Does Existence Wakes Up America Us Certain Aspects Sudden

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

Democracy Radical Thinking Our Perfect Voices Never Greater Without Been Quest America Any Moved Being Helm Desire

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

Oppression Mother Face Poverty Sense Valiant Purpose Had Road Also She How Taught Children Midwife Us Found Her Bring

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

Oppression Walls Made Our Everywhere See Wreck Written Policy Always Foreign Go Foreign Policy American Africa Places Planet American Policy

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

Democracy You Justice Rights People Long Believe Harmony Back No Choice Castro Takes Fidel Castro Then Choice Humankind

If you want to look at the Monroe Doctrine and what happened when we wrote that, we stated what the business would be for America's power, especially in this hemisphere. We have always been the colonizer of this hemisphere, wherever we've been. Harry Belafonte

You Business Power Monroe Stated Would Would-Be Look Doctrine Wrote Always Been America Want Happened Wherever Hemisphere

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

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

Best Big Think Worst City General New Come Most Known Dense America York New York Represents New York City Social

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

Music Gift Space Young Gave Charlie Charlie Parker Parker He Put Knew His Tragic Died Little Us Much

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

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

Art Me Gave About Something Always Existed Platform Activism

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