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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.

~Harry Belafonte

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The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known.

~Harry Belafonte

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

~Harry Belafonte

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 1st, 1927

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