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
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Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up in the idea around our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.
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... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.
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Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.
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Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
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My best hope is to bring a tone through my engagement, drawing attention to organizations that are often left out of the mainstream media.
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
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Bush promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.
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I was seven years old when the U.S. Supreme Court made the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. From that point on, I followed the movement.
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She alone has stood up for issues that are important to this country and important to the world. We're not here to judge the merits of the case; we're here to support our sister.
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This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
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Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
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It's one of the classic works of this period. The novel itself stands up on its own, and as a result of that, you're going to have a great deal of material as an offspring.
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Yes, Bush is racist. We all knew that, but the world is only finding it out now.