Quotes by Danny Glover

“One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.”

“Bush promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.”

“The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a jail or its bin Laden.”

“Yes, Bush is racist. We all knew that, but the world is only finding it out now.”

“The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.”

“Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is ... Anti-US”

“When the hurricane struck, it did not turn the region into a Third World country … it revealed one.”

“They were enormous for me, you cant imagine how enormous, ... Those are the people that kind of pulled me through.”

“What youve done is effectively cut off any discourse or dialogue. If were only going to govern by anger, then weve lost the game.”

“Playing opposite her was just a dance in sharing -- a beautiful dance in sharing, ... We were like singing a song to each other.”

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

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.

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; youre successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks dont get to that point.

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.

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.