Danny Glover
Danny Glover
Danny Lebern Gloveris an American actor, film director, and political activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 July 1946
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
jobs past thinking
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
military moving iran
We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that.
believe vain involvement
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
choices able
I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
country men looks
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
communication play san-francisco
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
powerful sleep community
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.
believe choices compromise
But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.
native-american gun land
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.
death moving dying
When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
children war long
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace
islands haiti climate
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.
thinking keys people
But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.
men two able
I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.