Heroes for a Better World

Susan Sarandon
(1946-)

American Actress, Social Activist
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

birthdate: October 4
birthplace:
New York City

QUOTES

"With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income."

“How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?”

“I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.”

“It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.”

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children are missing your support. Unite for Children. Unite against AIDS.

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential...

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

if you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice


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