Danny Glover Quotes About Civil Rights

Quotes about: Civil Rights

• The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

  Danny Glover

  War, Cities, Issues

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

• President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.

  Danny Glover

  Running, Country, School

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

• Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Danny Glover

  Children, Rights, Movement

  "On Movies, Money & Politics". Interview with Peter Biskind, www.thenation.com. March 18, 1999.

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

  Danny Glover

  Men, Rights, President

  Source: progressive.org

• 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.

  Danny Glover

  New Orleans, Rights, Water

  Source: progressive.org

• The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on.

  Danny Glover

  Issues, Rights, Cities

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Danny Glover

  Believe, Rights, Movement

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Danny Glover

  Rights, Black, Movement

  Source: progressive.org

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