Quotes from Danny Glover

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.

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

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

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.

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.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

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.

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.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

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

The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.