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You can cage the singer but not the song.
The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known.
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.
We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees
As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.
Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?
I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.
I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.
Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?
All too often, I'm sorry to say, I relegated my family to the cracks and margins.
You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
When I was 20 and 30, my visions for what the world would be, all things were possible.
My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.
Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.
More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."
This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.
The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.
America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.
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.
We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
I knew Charlie Parker, and he gave us such a gift with his music. He put so much into so little space, and it was tragic that he died so young.
Pop 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.
In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.
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.
Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen if fascism went unchallenged.
John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.
These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.
I 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.
I call President Bush a terrorist. I call those around him terrorists as well: Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzales in the Justice Department, and certainly Cheney.
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.
Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.
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.
I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.
One of the true pleasures of my life has been the work of John Steinbeck. He was one of the people who turned my life around. I had no direct relationship with him, unfortunately.
I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression.
Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.
The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.
Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.