Last Chance for Belafonte Tix

(Photo by David Bacon)

Don't miss this one. Civil rights leader, progressive political activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte is scheduled to speak at Popejoy Hall at UNM on Thursday, April 19, at 7:00 PM. Tickets: $30, $25, $20 at UNM Ticket Offices, www.unmtickets.com, 925-5858, or Raley’s Supermarkets. Check out this 2006 interview with Belafonte by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.

A sampling of Belafonte quotes:

“I do believe very strongly in dissent.”

“There should be no bottom line for corporate America until there’s a bottom line for the poor.”

“...it is the pursuit of finding democracy expressing itself at its highest that has always been central to my existence and to my thoughts and feelings.”

“Tyranny and terrorism feed off poverty [and] racism [and] sexism ... We’ve got to come to the believe that we must be more generous and more benevolent a country.”

“If we do not make a choice to make a difference, we then have made the choice to be crushed by indifference.”

“... to care for freedom and pay for it is a never-ending job.”

See our previous post on this event.