Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Obama administration doesn't see schools as a public good. It doesn't see schools as places where basically we can educate students… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it.… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Violence, with its ever-present economy of uncertainty, fear, and terror, is no longer merely a side effect of police brutality, war, or… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism is going to fail by being replaced. The system is entirely broken. Whenever you have a system that equates a market… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. — Henry Giroux Copy Share
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's a war… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology. — Henry Giroux Copy Share
I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about equality, social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
