Danny Glover Quotes

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• One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.
• But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
• 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…
• When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• I never thought about being an actor.
• 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…
• 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…
• I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
• I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
• Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
• 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…
• I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
• I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…

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