Danny Glover famous quotes

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
-- Danny Glover

#Struggle #Trying #Resistance

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions
-- Danny Glover

#Wedges

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 Glover

#Education #Children #Creativity

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

#Successful #Ideas #Black

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.
-- Danny Glover

#Kids #Racism #Environmental

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
-- Danny Glover

#Country #Men #Toxic

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
-- Danny Glover

#War #Latin #Agreement

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
-- Danny Glover

#Jobs #Past #Thinking

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
-- Danny Glover

#Country #People #African American

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
-- Danny Glover

#Color #White #Issues

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years
-- Danny Glover

#Years #Twelve #Ambassadors

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
-- Danny Glover

#Thinking #Long #Actors

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
-- Danny Glover

#Believe #Choices #Compromise

When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
-- Danny Glover

#Death #Moving #Dying

... 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 Glover

#Mother #Ideas #People

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

#Men #Two #Saint

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.
-- Danny Glover

#Race #Texas #People

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
-- Danny Glover

#Children #War #Long

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.
-- Danny Glover

#Islands #Climate #Haiti

I never thought about being an actor.
-- Danny Glover

#Actors

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.
-- Danny Glover

#Successful #Ideas #Black

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
-- Danny Glover

#Choices #Able

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.
-- Danny Glover

#Powerful #Sleep #Community

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 Glover

#Summer #School #Voters

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
-- Danny Glover

#Children #Rights #Movement

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
-- Danny Glover

#Communication #Play #San Francisco

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.
-- Danny Glover

#Thinking #Keys #People

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.
-- Danny Glover

#Mother #Children #Father

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
-- Danny Glover

#Believe #Vain #Involvement

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.
-- Danny Glover

#Military #Moving #Iran

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.
-- Danny Glover

#Native American #Gun #Land

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is...
-- Danny Glover

#Military #Media #Guy

I want people with epilepsy to know that there are ways in which they can play a role in their own recovery. It's all in how they approach what is happening and how they can use that as a catalyst for their own growth. If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that people are willing to embrace you if you share your story.
-- Danny Glover

#Recovery #Epilepsy #Play

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?
-- Danny Glover

#Jobs #New Orleans #Cities

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.
-- Danny Glover

#Country #America #World

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.
-- Danny Glover

#Health #Color #Issues