Danny Glover Quotes

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.

As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and interrupting racism in our lives.

I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

The race question in America has often been about race, but it has equally often been about power.

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains.

I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

A race-transcendent politics is most likely to succeed when the white community takes responsibility for overcoming its racism, not when the black community decides to forget it.

If you’re talking about American history, you’re talking about race.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes