Sydney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, two men who used their platforms for the good of the world!

Brought tears to my eyes, listening to the speeches of these two icons. It's a privilege to share the same planet with these gentlemen.

Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. 2 Legends 2 handsome men.

You go, Jamie! Seeing Harry and Sidney together on stage is a near overwhelming experience.

There couldnt have been a more fitting person to present this award to its recipient.

Those two legends gone but history will honor them for ever❤

This speech by Harry Belafonte - made in February 2013 - highlights what is happening today - a leader, a visionary, a man of wisdom - he is now with our ancestors - 96 years on this Earth. You will be forever remembered. Thank you for fighting for the indigenous people - standing for them - when no one had the balls to stand tall and represent them.

Two great humanitarians. Thank you for being part of my generation

Harry Belafonte is one of the coolest people in the world.

Powerful words and powerful speech 😀😃👍👏👏👏👏❤👍

I love this man, what he stands for and his courage to say what he does. Thank you Mr. Belefonte, your soul is beautiful and I am inspired to do my share.

Supersonic. Just passed up the opportunity to buy an original Harry Belafonte 12 inch at a garage sale and just went onto youtube to find out more about the great singer. Now I see what a great man he is too. Thanks Harry. For everything!!! Artists are indeed the gatekeepers of Truth. You are civilisation's radical voice.

harry belafonte= no fear, no filter, no virtue signaling , 100% authentic

Even in his golden years, Mr. Belefonte is as striking a gentleman as ever. More important, we are immensely grateful for his continuous work towards attaining equal rights for those who are historically disadvantaged in our society. Thank you Mr. Harry Belafonte. We love you. ❤ 🙏🙏

Jamie Fox, you just raised the bar of your honour by humbling yourself like you just did Bro. I pray that it's values such as these that are emulated and upheld amongst your peers, and hopefully trickle down to the younger rising generation. There is hope, indeed. And oh, what greatness Harry and Sidney!

Couldn't agree more with Harry Belafonte. His words are as truthful as ever. And he truly is a great man. I even was lucky enough to have met him in person back in 2012 at the St. Jude church in Montgomery, AL where I live. He was so nice and humble, he even signed my Harry Belafonte CD that my Grandpa once owned! This man is a true legend and I hope he continues to keep doing what he's doing.

Harry & Sidney are together again singing , playing and even from "another dimension" ,still struggling and being close to human suffering and those striving for freedom and equality....as here we will try to follow your bright example of love and caring for all❤ forever missed and loved all over the world by so many of us🤍💙

Greatest respect to a great man🌹❤️🍀 coming from Germany 🌹❤️🍀

Mister Belafonte, I grew up with you on my side. I love you. ❤️ from Belgium.

RIP Mr.Poitier one of the worlds greatest actor and Civil Rights Icon. I love you both Mr Harry has always spoken truth about and to power.

Rest in Peace Harry Belafonte,a true icon

Rest in peace 🕊️🕊️ both of you, your absence will always be felt and irreplaceable

RIP Mr. Belafonte, you made the World Beautiful with your songs and you were such a greatest person. RIP

Here I am, looking to KZfaq videos and comments to give me some perspective on the life of Mr Belafonte. I think this is the one to remember. Both men sublimely articulate and impressive.

I spoke with mr Belafonte on the team at CVG for a few minutes many years ago; he was a very nice guy to chat with.

Two of the greatest men that are shining examples while I was growing up, and still.

Rest in Peace, Sidney Poitier and today, Harry Belafonte 😢🕊🕊

Mr. Harry Belafonte I listened to your excellent speach and wondered what can be done to change our existing conditions in our Country. Thank you.

Poitier and Belafonte. Towering figures, both literally and figuratively.

Can't help but tear up when I saw him walking center stage 😢 This man is one of the people who sculpted and decorated my childhood through their art and personality. At one point I even wished he was my dad lol May he live his senior years in health, happiness and peace of mind.

Kings. Both Mr. Belafonte and Mr. Portier are kings. We honor you, sirs, and thank you as well.

RIP Harry Belafonte

🕊️🤍 REST IN HEAVENLY PEACE 🕊️🤍

Great. I write you from France and I had - I have such an admiration for these generous men. Thank you.

the life is only one moment wehn i see Sytney Portier and Harry Belafonte yesterday jung today old nice men

TWO TITANS!!!!!! SPEAKING TRUTH! MR. PORTIER! MR. BELAFONTE!!!

Truly great men. Great men.

Never knew he was an activist! So proud of him.

What an Angel

mister Belafonte you illuminate my youth and still are my star,t hanks you

Mister Belafonte I love you and your music so much, thank you for singing some of your songs in my language isiXhosa with Mama Miriam Makeba, Phumla ngoxolo tata umsebenzi wakho omkhulu kwaye omhle kakhulu uwugqibile, Amandla ngawethu, A Luta continua...!!!!

Wieder ist einer der großartigen Menschen und Künstler von uns gegangen. So ein Talent kommt nie wieder. Über so viele Jahre hat er uns durch seine Musik und Gesang erfreut, DANKE HARRY

The two Gems.Harry Belafonte and Mr Sydney Poitier.

Mare voce, mare om☆☆☆

PURE CLASS

Instants to preserve in the collective memory than the embrace uniting Belafonte and Poitier.

I sit hear and listening and the tears flow

Rest well, Kings. Thank you, Mr. Poitier and Mr. Belafonte.

You don't hear any Caribbeans speaking this courageous anymore what happened??

Love that still good looking and intelligent man🌹❤️🍀 Harry Belfonte is very charming even nowadays🌹❤️🍀

Start by hearing a short speech by Poitier. A longer and terribly affecting speech by Belafonte. I was both happy to hear his words and so saddened by what he was saying. You do not have to subscribe to hear this. Simply click to listen to a man who is now a legend A great speech from both ❤❤

I don't know what his printed speech actually did say, but I don't even think it matters. What he said did matter, especially now.

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True Legends.

Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, "A LOS MAESTROS CON CARIÑO". ABRAZOS A TRAVÉS DEL DESTINO, DESDE CD. OBREGÓN,SONORA, MÉXICO.

Harry Belafonte use to come to Aruba a lot between 1950 and 1979

Right speech right man mr Harry Belafota🙏🏿💯❤️❤️❤️

Such beautiful souls

They did their mission and completed the assignments. Both have now transitioned. Jami Fox who followed admits the younger generation has essentially abandoned the socio/Political challenges and has forgotten who got them there. Mr. Fox it has been reported had a massive stroke recently and is in intensive care at a hospital in Atlanta. Such is the fragileness of life.

Martin Luther King is smiling proudly over this man.

After watching the two giants in the civil rights struggle, I think it's worth considering racial representations in the Congress or Senate. The American constitution had overlooked this gap and picks only geographical representatives which favours the dominant white group, thus creating certain imbalances, particularly on racial issues. Harry concluded by saying the system needs changes. And this is my proposition.

J’adore les 2❤

Mr.harry I regards u as one of the 10 greatest person to every wake the earth. For what u have done for our.

The clap on 37 second was real

Amen!

Melt my heart❤

Thank you for including Jamie's speech! I hate that he was cut short.

Harry Belafonte Legend

🙏💜🙏 ....R.I.P .... 🙏💜🙏

“Did you say almost a century ? Hahaha 🤣 🙏🏽🤗😪🤗🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽❤️✊🏽💥🙏🏽💥👍🏽

Dois dos negros mais bonitos que já vi na minha vida, tanto como um inesquecível cantor( com sua música que servio para alertar e de protesto nos anos 50) como deste ator que não somente em lindas interpretações( não consigo esquecer de ; ao mestre com carinho), onde aboradavam vários temas importantes..

Brilliant.

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RIP, Rest in your 'Island in the Sun'!

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Per me, sig. Robeson era il passero. Era un artista che ha fatto comprendere a noi artisti la profondità di quella chiamata, quando ha detto: “Gli artisti sono i guardiani della verità. Siamo la voce radicale della civiltà”. Mai nella storia dell'America nera c'è stato un tale raccolto di artisti veramente dotati e fortemente celebrati. Tuttavia, la nostra nazione ha fame della loro canzone radicale. Nel campo dello sport domina la nostra presenza. Nel panorama del potere aziendale, abbiamo più presenza afroamericana come capitani e leader dell'industria di quanto abbiamo mai conosciuto. Eppure soffriamo ancora di estrema povertà e malnutrizione morale. La nostra unica speranza risiede nel ricordo di un momento che è stato menzionato prima qui, ed è stato il mio ultimo incontro con il Dr. Re. Era appena prima che partisse per Memphis per unirsi allo sciopero con i lavoratori della nettezza urbana. Abbiamo tenuto una riunione strategica e il dott. King, la riunione era a casa mia e il Dr. King, durante quell'incontro, sembrava distratto e di umore cupo. Quando gli abbiamo chiesto quale fosse il problema, ha detto: “Abbiamo fatto molta strada nella lotta per l'integrazione e, anche se stiamo vincendo alcune battaglie, non abbiamo vinto la guerra. E sono giunto alla conclusione che nella nostra lotta per l'integrazione, potremmo integrarci in una casa in fiamme”. Quel pensiero, abbiamo trovato profondamente inquietante. E quando gli abbiamo chiesto se tale era la sua convinzione, cosa avrebbe voluto che facessimo? E la sua risposta è stata: "Dovremo diventare vigili del fuoco". Numerose strategie nella ricerca della nostra libertà sono state messe in atto a tutti i livelli dello spettro sociale: gruppi di giovani, gruppi di donne, gruppi di lavoratori, gruppi religiosi. La lista potrebbe continuare all'infinito. Eppure, l'opposizione persiste nella sua resistenza alla nostra ricerca. Ciò che manca, credo, nell'equazione nella nostra lotta di oggi è che dobbiamo scatenare un pensiero radicale. L'America mantiene muta quella parte del discorso. Vorrei lanciare un appello alla NAACP, in quanto istituzione più antica nella nostra ricerca della dignità umana e dei diritti umani, affinché stimoliamo più pienamente il concetto e la necessità di un pensiero radicale. L'America non è mai stata spinta a perfezionare il nostro desiderio di una maggiore democrazia senza che il pensiero radicale e le voci radicali siano al timone di una tale ricerca. La ricerca della giustizia è tutto ciò che ho conosciuto. E ho detto spesso che ciò che definisce un vero patriota - e leggendo un libro, La vita di Theodore Roosevelt, mi sono imbattuto in una citazione, in cui diceva che quando lo stato si trova ad allontanarsi dal suo impegno per i diritti del cittadino , quando quei diritti vengono calpestati e fuorviati, quando c'è chi vorrebbe strappare alla Costituzione l'uguaglianza che essa ha tentato di dare a tutti noi, allora i cittadini della nazione hanno non solo l'obbligo, ma il diritto, di sfidare il Stato e chi lo gestisce. E ha detto, se non riusciamo a farlo, se non rispettiamo quei criteri morali, allora noi cittadini dovremmo essere accusati di tradimento patriottico. E questo mi ha colpito perché quello che stiamo realmente facendo è un viaggio per porre fine al comportamento traditore della scena politica contemporanea e a ciò che sta cercando di fare per rubare i nostri voti, per rubare i nostri voti, a quello che sta facendo alle nostre donne, a quello che sta facendo ai nostri figli, a quello che sta facendo ovunque i neri abbiano momenti di bisogno e desiderio. Lo chiederei a meno che l'America nera - o direi che a meno che l'America nera non alzi la voce forte e chiara, l'America - ed è specificamente nostra responsabilità - di tutta la diversità culturale che costituisce questa nazione e la sua promessa di essere grande, il la forza più potente è la voce degli afroamericani, e l'America non diventerà mai completa, e l'America non diventerà mai ciò che sogna di essere, finché non saremo veramente liberi e veramente una parte più grande di questo.

Legends!💙💙👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

A Brilliant mind.

Great man, he is so right 🌹❤️🍀 Cannot find the church???

Amen 🙏🏾 a legend?

The finest leaders and excellent men.

Harry Belafonte has made incalculable contributions to America; yet, too many Americans, and particularly Black Americans are unaware and unappreciative of those contributions. America NEEDS many more people like Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte to pilot us through the years ahead. Those are going to be really challenging years because we have some of the worst caliber of human beings sitting in the US Congress in 2021. ALL PEOPLE OF COLOR and PEOPLE OF GOODWILL NEED TO REGISTER AND VOTE SO THAT THE MONSTERS WILL BE GONE FROM ELECTED OFFICE BY 2022 AND 2024. PLEASE VOTE DEMOCRATIC. America needs patriotic people with honest values and basic decency to be Elected to Political Leadership. We do not need racist, liars and haters. As a country, we deserve the best so America will again be a positive example in the world. MAY GOD HELP & GUIDE US TO CHOOSE WELL.

What a pretty pretty man!! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️

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I think history will note this as the beginning of the change a lot of us have been waiting for. #BlackLivesMatter ...because it hasn't before.

RIP

Whenever we talk about those are inspiring us I make a difference in the past and 1940s and authorities and the 60 like 👍 Dr King missing to forget one more person Malcolm X he's like he didn't do anything his words did not move us his ideas did not change us but somehow Doctor Martha Luther King consider Malcolm X a brother it's like we are trying to dismiss what my ex did erase his history it didn't matter it seems like it wasn't enough this is where you're wrong the weather this wonderful work the way it did you may not like it you cannot dismiss it

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We are indigenous. Others like to challenge us on this but we are.

Wake up Harry! Wake up! 😂😂😂

hero

Sexiest men of all time, along with one being a renowned singer; and both, exemplary actors and civil rights activists. Celebrate them now...while they can still smell those flowers!

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Daylight Come Harry Belefonte 1:29

The group that is most devastated by America’s obsession with the gun is African Americans. Although making comparisons can be dangerous, there are times when they must be noted. America has the largest prison population in the world, and the over two million men, women and children who make up the incarcerated, the overwhelming majority of them is black. African Americans are the most unemployed, the most caught in the unjust systems of justice. And in the gun game, they are the most hunted. The rivers of blood that wash the streets of our nation flow mostly from the bodies of our black children. Yet, as the great debate emerges on the question of the gun, white America discusses the constitutional issues of ownership, while no one speaks to the consequences of our racial carnage. Where is the outraged voice of black America? Where? And why are we mute? Where are our leaders? Where are our legislators? Where is the church? Not all, but many who have been the recipients of this distinguished award, were men and women who spoke up to remedy the ills of the nation. They were all committed to radical thought. They were my mentors, my inspiration, my moral compass. Through them, I understood America’s greatness. I understood America’s potential. Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, and others like Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker, Bobby Kennedy and Miss Constance Rice, and perhaps, for me, most of all, Paul Robeson. For me, Mr. Robeson was the sparrow. He was an artist who made those of us in the arts understand the depth of that calling, when he said, “Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.” Never in the history of black America has there been such a harvest of truly gifted and powerfully celebrated artists. Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song. In the field of sports, our presence dominates. In the landscape of corporate power, we have more African-American presence as captains and leaders of industry than we’ve ever known. Yet we suffer still from abject poverty and moral malnutrition. Our only hope lies in the recall of a moment which has been to referred to earlier here, and was my last meeting with Dr. King. It was just before he left to go off to Memphis to join the strike with sanitation workers. We held a strategy meeting, and Dr. King-the meeting was in my home, and Dr. King, during that meeting, appeared to be distracted and in a dark mood. When we asked him what was the matter, he said, “We have come far in the struggle for integration, and although we may be winning some battles, we have not won the war. And I have come to the conclusion that in our struggle to integrate, we may be integrating into a burning house.” That thought, we found deeply disturbing. And when we asked him if such was his belief, what would he have us do? And his reply was, “We will have to become firemen.” Numerous strategies in the quest of our freedom has been played out at all levels of the social spectrum-youth groups, women’s groups, labor groups, religious groups. The list goes on and on. And yet, the opposition persists in its resistance to our quest. What is missing, I think, from the equation in our struggle today is that we must unleash radical thought. America keeps that part of the discourse mute. I would make an appeal for the NAACP, as the oldest institution in our quest for human dignity and human rights, that we stimulate more fully the concept and the need for radical thinking. America has never been moved to perfect our desire for greater democracy without radical thinking and radical voices being at the helm of any such quest. The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known. And I have often said that what defines a true patriot-and in reading a book, The Life of Theodore Roosevelt, I came upon a quote, where he said that when the state finds itself moving away from its commitment to the rights of the citizen, when those rights are being trampled and misguided, when there are those who would wrest from the Constitution the equality that it attempted to give all of us, then the citizens of the nation have not only the obligation, but the right, to challenge the state and those who run it. And he said, if we fail to do that, if we fail to meet that moral criteria, then we, the citizens, should be charged with patriotic treason. And that struck me because what we are really on is a journey to end the treasonous behavior of the contemporary political scene and what it is trying to do to steal our votes-to steal our votes, to what it’s doing to our women, to what it’s doing to our children, to what it’s doing to wherever black people have moments of need and want. I would ask that unless black America-or I would say that unless black America raises its voice loud and clear, America-and it is specifically our responsibility-of all the cultural diversity that makes up this nation and its promise to be great, the most powerful force is the voice of African Americans, and America will never become whole, and America will never become what it dreams to be, until we are truly free and truly a bigger part of this.

Yea a talented man, gifts from god, why didn't he say were are the father's of the children??

America you can say what you think what is right,its freedom,in other places your head is cut off even you said its right.alhamdulilla

All people have colour

Is it too late to make him a rickroll but with banana boat? We can call it belaboating