Harry Belafonte Quotes About Oppression

Quotes about: Oppression

• 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

  Wall, Wrecks, Oppression

• As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

  Harry Belafonte

  Matter, Facts, Compromise

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that resistance. I took part in the labor movement, in social movements, in the church community. I felt that it was the honorable thing to do and still do.

  Harry Belafonte

  Latin, America, Community

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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

  Harry Belafonte

  Oppression, Terrorism, Fascism

  "Belafonte Blasts 'Gestapo' Security". www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2006.

• Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Cancer, Would Be, Compromise

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease, and devastation. Add to that another two billion people who are just plain poor. If you look into the world of those caught in economic oppression, illiteracy, disease, and sexism, then you'll understand more clearly what we have to do.

  Harry Belafonte

  Opportunity, Two, People

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Harry Belafonte

  Dream, Growing Up, Opportunity

  "Harry Belafonte Birthday Tribute". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. February 28, 2017.

• I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience for those of us who grew up under the boundaries of race and race experience in the Caribbean or for those who grew up in Africa.

  Harry Belafonte

  Growing Up, Thinking, America

  "Harry Belafonte Birthday Tribute". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. February 28, 2017.

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