95 Quotes by Danny Glover

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s also important for those who promote those issues within the white community – the somewhat privileged community – to talk about issues affecting people of color.

I've been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.