Danny Glover Quotes

• But I think it’s very key that there’s a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to – as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

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• Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Freedom, School

• Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you’re successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don’t get to that point.

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  Topics in Life, Success

• I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

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• But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

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• Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

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• I never thought about being an actor.

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• I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

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  Topics in Anger, Family

  Tags in Powerful

• I’m a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

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• I’ve been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.

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• I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

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• I’m not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

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• I’ve always been able to make choices that don’t embarrass me.

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• In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That’s how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.

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  Tags in Play, State, Kids

• It’s also important for those who promote those issues within the white community – the somewhat privileged community – to talk about issues affecting people of color.

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  Tags in Important, Talk, Color

• If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Men

• If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children’s mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Live

• If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism – about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

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• New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That’s why it makes its money. That’s – it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that – living wages?

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  Topics in Money

• One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

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Danny Glover (29)

Birth:	22nd July, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actor, Film Director

About

Daniel Lebern "Danny" Glover was born in San Francisco, California. He is an American actor, film director and political activist. He is well known for his roles as Detective Sergeant Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series, Mr. Albert Johnson in The Color Purple, cowboy Mal Johnson in Silverado, Michael Harrigan in Predator 2, corrupt cop James McFee in Witness, Colonel Isaac Johnson in Shooter, Detective David Tapp in Saw, and George Knox in Angels in the Outfield. In 2010, Glover delivered the Commencement Address and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Utah State University.

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