Harry Belafonte Quotes

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

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

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

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!

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

I'm challenging the powers that be.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

I refuse to be silenced.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.