Danny Glover Quotes

We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Danny Glover Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
Danny Glover
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
Danny Glover
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
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
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
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
I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
Danny Glover
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
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
Danny Glover
I’ve been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.
Danny Glover
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
I never thought about being an actor.
Danny Glover
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
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
Danny Glover
I’ve always been able to make choices that don’t embarrass me.
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I’m a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
Danny Glover
This country has always been run by elite, and it’s an elitist democracy. And that’s not a radical concept. It’s elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don’t talk – really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
Danny Glover
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
Well I don’t know because I don’t have a real relationship with the industry.
Danny Glover