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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. ↗

— Danny Glover

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men. ↗

— Danny Glover

#between #fort #homeless #i #men

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. ↗

— Danny Glover

#angeles #capacity #central #environment #environmental

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. ↗

— Danny Glover

#black #called #campus #cleaver #communications

New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings people to the city. People come to the city and experience the wonders of this extraordinary city and everything else. The question is that, how do we create jobs which are the jobs that have pay, that - living wages? ↗

— Danny Glover

#brings #city #come #create #else

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. ↗

— Danny Glover

#african americans #bad #bad times #black #country

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects. ↗

— Danny Glover

#actor #african #before #bring #course

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. ↗

— Danny Glover

#agreements #america #celebrate #energy #find

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. ↗

— Danny Glover

#always #been #concept #country #day

Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry. ↗

— Danny Glover

#i #industry #know #real #real relationship