--- title: Gloria Steinem Harry Belafonte March on Washington VIDEO description: Gloria Steinem and Harry Belafonte, two of the March on Washington co-chairs, discuss why they're optimistic about the future of activism canonical: https://time.com/4641011/gloria-steinem-harry-belafonte-on-activism-trump/ author: Arpita Aneja article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-21T11:01:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T07:14:20.597Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Gloria Steinem and Harry Belafonte on the Future of Activism og:description: "It is now a majority movement" og:url: https://time.com/4641011/gloria-steinem-harry-belafonte-on-activism-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt896a55885eb448db/6988b67f8e06011866468e41/293884104_5290991443001_5289532846001-vs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1280 og:image:height: 720 og:image:alt: 293884104_5290991443001_5289532846001-vs og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Gloria Steinem and Harry Belafonte on the Future of Activism twitter:description: "It is now a majority movement" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt896a55885eb448db/6988b67f8e06011866468e41/293884104_5290991443001_5289532846001-vs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Gloria Steinem and Harry Belafonte on the Future of Activism: 'It Is Now a Majority Movement' > Sponsored content. 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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem and Social Activist Harry Belafonte discuss the past, present, and future of activism._  by [Arpita Aneja](https://time.com/author/arpita-aneja/)  ## Arpita Aneja Jan 21, 2017 11:01 AM UTC Feminist icon Gloria Steinem and Social Activist Harry Belafonte discuss the past, present, and future of activism.  by [Arpita Aneja](https://time.com/author/arpita-aneja/)  ## Arpita Aneja Jan 21, 2017 11:01 AM UTC Feminist icon, [Gloria Steinem](http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1094264687001%5F2086963,00.html), and signer and social activist, [Harry Belafonte](http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19590302,00.html), have both spent their lives advocating for social justice. Now, as younger activists take the stage to protest the Trump administration, two of the [honorary co-chairs](https://www.womensmarch.com/honorary-cochairs/) of the [Women’s March on Washington](http://time.com/4636173/protests-before-womens-march-on-washington/) have this message to impart about where to go from here. In an exclusive video filmed at TIME for a story that appears in the magazine on stands now, Steinem and Belafonte discussed challenges [facing activists then](http://content.time.com/time/onedream/people/) and now. “The Ku Klux Klan has been a forever presence in our midst. Racism and oppression has been an eternal experience,” says Belafonte, who was an active member of the [Civil Rights movement](http://time.com/3672274/civil-rights-movement-lesson/). Steinem was optimistic about the future of activism. “Sometimes I think, I just had to wait for some of my friends to be born,” she says with a laugh. “Because it is now a majority movement when, in our lives, it was not.” Watch the video above. ## Transcript [00:00] People keep asking me. I don't know about you but [00:02] whom I'm gonna give my torch to? Right? And I always [00:05] say to them I am not giving up my torch. Thank you [00:08] very much. I ain't giving my torch. And I'm using it to [00:11] light other people's torches because the whole idea [00:14] that there's only one torch is the problem. No wonder [00:18] we don't know where we're going. [ LAUGH ] [00:19] Everybody has to have a torch. [ MUSIC ] [00:27] This election brought up someone as president [00:31] who represents to me the backlash that comes against [00:36] social justice movements. And it is very very very [00:40] dangerous. It's also true that when [00:44] we elect a possible person, I'm sorry to say, we tend [00:48] to go home and not be as active as we should. This [00:53] is unprecedented in my life, and seeing that [00:58] people are just, just not Going to take it. There was a [01:02] rude awakening I think for White America that [01:06] captured my interest because I've been threatened by [01:10] a lot of political expressions in the last 90 [01:14] years. We've had a few presidents that have not been [01:17] so kind. The Ku Klux Klan has been a [01:22] forever presence in our midst. Racism and oppression [01:27] has been an eternal experience. What I think [01:31] Trump contributes is that he's taking away the [01:35] ambivalence and the politics of the right wing. He [01:40] doesn't like Hispanics. He doesn't like women. He [01:43] doesn't like anything. Since the election, no one has [01:47] said to us, post- racist or post- feminist, right? Right, [01:53] exactly. And [ LAUGH ] so in some sense, if you've [01:55] been doing this all your life, you And recognize how [01:59] deep it is. That's the point. Right. It runs so deep. [02:02] Right. My children are even amazed at [02:07] things that they're hearing now. And I didn't realize [02:11] how insulated they had become, that generation. For [02:14] all that we'd struggles for in the Civil Rights movement, [02:20] and the peace movement. In the women's movement. [02:27] [ MUSIC ] I feel enormously [02:33] lucky to be doing What I'm doing and [02:38] I feel such faith in the younger activists I see. [02:42] You know, sometimes I think I just had to wait for some [02:45] of my friends to be born. Because it is [02:49] now a majority movement, when in our lives it [02:53] was not. Had I not been led [02:58] to a place of activism, nothing in my life would have [03:02] been worth its existence. I would never have been led [03:06] to these destinations. Dr. Du Bois, Eleanor Roosevelt, [03:11] all these people made my life absolutely The [03:15] tarantella. It's a dance. It's a place to be so [03:19] privileged to be in. What we get to do [03:24] is profoundly interesting and communal and exciting [03:28] and- Absolutely, [03:37] absolutely. Right. Absolutely. 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