Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.
Danny Glover
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Danny Glover
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 22
Actor
Character Actor
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Peace Activist
Singer
Television Actor
Television Producer
San Francisco County
California
Danny Lebern Glover
Daniel Lebern Glover
Expressed
Express
Capacity
Feel
Feels
Needs
Trying
Believe
More quotes by Danny Glover
Democracy is about criticism.
Danny Glover
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions
Danny Glover
When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
Danny Glover
Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When I was born, there were 2.5 billion people living on the whole planet. Now there are 2.5 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That's the kind of reality we have to deal with.
Danny Glover
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 stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.
Danny Glover
President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.
Danny Glover
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
Danny Glover
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
Danny Glover
My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.
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
Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.
Danny Glover
If 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 of kids in Santa Monica.
Danny Glover
One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.
Danny Glover
Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.
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
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
Danny Glover
Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
Danny Glover
What's more important is that we talk about movements change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.
Danny Glover
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.
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
