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Democracy is about criticism.

Danny Glover

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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
Criticism
Democracy

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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.
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It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
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One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.
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The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.
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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.
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Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.
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Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.
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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.
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I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
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I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.
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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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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
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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
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My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.
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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.
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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 such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved I got involved in a little play
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I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
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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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Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.
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When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
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