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Danny Glover Biography

Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is well known for his leading role as Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film series, The Color Purple (1985), To Sleep with Anger (1990), Predator 2 (1990), and Angels in the Outfield (1994). He also has prominent supporting roles in Silverado (1985), Witness (1985), Saw (2004), Shooter (2007), 2012 (2009), Death at a Funeral (2010), Beyond the Lights (2014), and Dirty Grandpa (2016). He has appeared in many other movies, television shows, and theatrical productions, and is an active supporter of various humanitarian and political causes.

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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.

1964, Freedom, School, Summer, Voter, Voters

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

Children, Damage, Killers, Long, Respect, War

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

Believe, Civil, Misconception, Movement, Resistance, Rights

I want people with epilepsy to know that there are ways in which they can play a role in their own recovery. It's all in how they approach what is happening and how they can use that as a catalyst for their own growth. If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that people are willing to embrace you if you share your story.

Catalyst, Epilepsy, Play, Recovery, Role

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

Communication, San Francisco, Play, Involved, Sonia

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

Fort, Homeless, Men, Saint, Two, Washington

I never thought about being an actor.

Actors, Actor, Thought

There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako, about the African debt crisis, a platform to discuss the experience of people who actually live it. All of these are important ways we can use film as a forum inviting people into a dialogue.

Civil, Film, New Orleans, Produced, Rights, Water

Did you know a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds. Millions of children are going it alone. Missing their childhood. Missing their mother. Missing their father. AIDS is devastating families around the globe. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.

Children, Father, Missing, Mother, Unite

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.

Black, Ideas, Success, Successful, Way

The exceptionalism of a black U. S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

Black, Exceptionalism, Important, President, Table

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

Black, Movement, Power, Process, Rights, Separation

Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence of black power, which is a discussion King mentioned in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? We're talking about the meaning of black power and the possibility that it alienated our supporters, both white and black.

Book, Kings, Martin, Possibility, Power, White

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

Able, Choices, Embarrass, Make

Lethal Weapon 2 used the platform to talk about the apartheid system. That was a very important moment for us.

Apartheid, Important, Lethal, Moments, Weapon, Weapons

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U. S. film-making.

Cinema, Global, Simply, Stories, Tied, Trying

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

Believe, Express, Needs, Trying

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

Hope, Resistance, Struggle, Trying

My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

Done, Film, Limbo, Way

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

Immigration, Issues, Poverty, World

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