121 Quotes by Harry Belafonte

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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 individual came into a relationship with me having, then I would say that I have been successful.

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    These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future – for the children and for the country.

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    Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

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    John say’s it’s James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

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    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.

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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 their rights suspended.

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    I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled here. Although oppression was common to all of us, those styles of oppression gave us the opportunity to see the world in dimensions we didn’t quite see growing up in any one place.

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    I’m very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I’m in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.

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