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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.”

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Danny Glover

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“We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for the move steadily to the right happened with the Reagan administration. People want to elevate him to some mythic level; they have their own reason for doing that.”

People Knows Want Reason Moving Levels Happened Military Died Affair Administration Legacy Iran Funding Groundwork Iran Contra

Author:Danny Glover

“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”

Littles States Play Black Community Students Poet Communication Involved Program Invited San Francisco Influential Campus Semester Cleaver

Author:Danny Glover

“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”

Thinking Want Jobs Past Moved Embrace You Choose

Author:Danny Glover

“The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist”

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