You can cage the singer but not the song.

- Harry Belafonte

If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

- Harry Belafonte

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

- Harry Belafonte

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.

- Harry Belafonte

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

- Harry Belafonte

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

- Harry Belafonte

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

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.

- Harry Belafonte

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

- Harry Belafonte