We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
Harry BelafonteWithout compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.
Harry BelafonteOur 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 BelafontePop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.
Harry BelafonteI not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.
Harry BelafonteI would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: Iām wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.
Harry Belafonte