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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

~Forest Whitaker

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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

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In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Acting Asked Audition Classical College Did Got High High School Lead Me Musicals Never Opera Play School Some Speech Studying Teacher Took Until Voice

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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.

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Topics: Am Back Been Endured Feel Fragile Heart Hope Just Kind Live Maintain Make Most Moved Nations Out Pain Peace People Reach See South Sudan Them Violence Who Will World Years I Am

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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.

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Topics: Accountable Behalf Brothers Brothers And Sisters Care Compelling Drive Duty Enough Hear Hold Leaders Lives Moral Must Our Peace Remind Save Sisters South Speaking Sudan Them Toward Us Will Work

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When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.

~Forest Whitaker

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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

~Forest Whitaker

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I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.

~Forest Whitaker

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 15th, 1961

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