Harry Belafonte Quotes

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

An oppressed people will always rise.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

Better to starve fighting than to starve working.

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

Power Concedes Nothing

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

When people rise, they must have a goal worthy of them. Must paltry goods be of concern to them?... The people must rise up not to collect sugar, but to bring down the tyrants.