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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
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Danny Glover
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 22
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Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: How'd we do? How much? It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.
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It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
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Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
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I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.
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I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
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We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.
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But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
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