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

~Harry Belafonte

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You can cage the singer but not the song.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 1st, 1927

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