Danny Glover Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.”
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“We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions”
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“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.”
-- Danny GloverSource : Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.
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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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“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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“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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“The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist”
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“When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace”
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“Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row”
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“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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“I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years”
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“Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects”
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“But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.”
-- Danny GloverSource : Interview by Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.
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“When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.”
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“... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.”
-- Danny GloverSource : Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.
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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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“Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.”
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“It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace”
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“What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.”
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“I never thought about being an actor.”
-- Danny GloverSource : "Billy Bob Thorntons Musical Multiple Personality Disorder". Interview with Taylor Hill, www.jambands.com. September 23, 2007.
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“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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“I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.”
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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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“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.”
-- Danny GloverSource : Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.
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“Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.”
-- Danny GloverSource : "On Movies, Money & Politics". Interview with Peter Biskind, www.thenation.com. March 18, 1999.
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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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“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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“Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood. Missing their mother. Missing their father. AIDS is devastating families around the globe. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.”
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“I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.”
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“We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that.”
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