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Danny Glover
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 22
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Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.
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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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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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The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.
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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
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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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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.
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Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
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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.
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President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.
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Democracy is about criticism.
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I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
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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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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.
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I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
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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.
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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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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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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've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years
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