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Danny Glover
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Danny Glover
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 22
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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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One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country America.
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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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The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on.
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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 someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
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It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
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