Danny Glover Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 small community and a family.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

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.

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

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

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

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

Democracy is about criticism.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.

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.

Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.

What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important.

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.