Harry Belafonte

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is 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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

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.