Harry Belafonte Quotes

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CARACAS, Venezuela — The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

"No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution," Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast

Belafonte accused U.S. news media of falsely painting Chavez as a "dictator," when in fact, he said, there is democracy and citizens are "optimistic about their future."

Belafonte suggested setting up a youth exchange for Venezuelans and Americans. He finished by shouting in Spanish: "Viva la revolucion!"

Belafonte Says Bush Is 'Greatest Terrorist in the World,' Praises Venezuelan Dictator
Sunday, January 08, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181030,00.html

"Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value," Belafonte said in an exclusive interview with Cybercast News Service.

"[If] a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated," he added

Harry Belafonte Calls Black Republicans 'Tyrants'
By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer August 08, 2005
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200508%5CSPE20050808a.html

"In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves  that lived in the house. "You got the  privilege of living in the house if you served the master... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. "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.

Mr Belafonte also criticized other members of the Bush Administration, comparing the tactics of the Justice Department with those used during the McCarthy communist "witch-hunt" era of the 1950s. "Families were destroyed, neighbors spied on neighbors," he said. "Now we find [the Attorney-General, John] Ashcroft cutting in under the guise of catching terrorists, suspending liberties and rights. "To deny those rights, to any citizen, to any people, is to cast a great shame on us and lead us back to another dark period." There have been protests that US civil liberties are being eroded by the Government's "war on terror".

Belafonte lashes 'house slave' Powell for serving Bush
October 10 2002
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/09/1034061254941.html

"In fact and practice ... you are serving those who continue to design our oppression," he said of Powell and Rice. "That is villainy, and I insist you look at it."

Belafonte, 75, said he expects the Bush administration to try to wipe away affirmative action, eliminate a woman's right to choose abortion and pursue a war with Iraq "that makes absolutely no sense."

Sept. 11 "wasn't just Bin Laden. 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."

Entertainment - AP Gossip/Celebrity Belafonte Lashes Out at Bush Over Race http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030121/ap_en_ce/people_belafonte_1

Asked if he thought leaders of his own country were misguided, Belafonte, said: "Absolutely. I not only think that they 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 don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor,"

"I think he 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,"

March 4, 2003
Belafonte Says U.S. Leaders 'Possessed of Evil'
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20030304_173.html

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