Inspirational Quotes
... by famous people with learning disabilities or differences
Learning Disability - Harry Belafonte
"Day - O, Day - O ... Daylight come and we want to go home."
Sure you're familiar with the Banana Boat Song that made
Harry Belafonte so famous.
Did you know that he's also been a civil rights activist since the 1950s. Most notably, it was Belafonte who sent the
money to bail Martin Luthur King Jr. out of
Birmingham City Jail. He's also been an antiapartheid activist for many years. And in 1985, his idea to fight famine in Ethiopia with the song
"We Are the World", generated more than 70 million dollars. In 1987, he was named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Harry Belafonte is also dyslexic.
"I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder.
In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted."
-- Harry Belafonte
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