Danny GloverIt'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. ✨ Int… ▶363Humanity
Danny GloverThe 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 … ▶374HopeHumanityTime
Danny GloverIf 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… ▶332Truth
Danny GloverWe have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions377Philosophy
Danny GloverThe 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… ▶366Humanity
Danny GloverIt's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment. ✨ Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.or… ▶355Humanity
Danny GloverSome 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 sa… ▶291Thought
Danny GloverOne of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.3710Humor
Danny GloverI 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. ✨… ▶304Politics
Danny GloverIf 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. ✨ Interview w… ▶3510Reflection
Danny GloverI'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.261Philosophy
Danny GloverLeadership 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 livi… ▶284HumanityLifeThought
Danny GloverWhen someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.319Hope
Danny GloverToday, 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 … ▶253Philosophy
Danny GloverWhat 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.3010Humanity
Danny GloverIf 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… ▶255Humanity
Danny GloverWe 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 r… ▶244DeathHumanity
Danny GloverIt 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 l… ▶212Sadness
Danny GloverIm a child of the Civil Rights Movement. ✨ On Movies, Money & Politics. Interview with Peter Biskind, www.thenation.com. March 18, 1999.246Politics
Danny GloverI try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.268Hope
Danny GloverFreedom 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. ✨ Interv… ▶224Time
Danny GloverDid 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 de… ▶183Sadness
Danny GloverEvery 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… ▶172LifeThoughtTruth
Danny GloverSince 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 … ▶239DeathHumanityLife
Danny GloverWhen 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'v… ▶239ThoughtTime
Danny GloverI've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years196Sadness
Danny GloverI've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me. ✨ Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.209Love
Danny GloverI was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men. ✨ Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.176Hope
Danny GloverIn 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 Bul… ▶168Politics
Danny GloverBut rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe. ✨ Interview by Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.147Hope
