People Quotes by Henry Giroux

I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think…

— Henry Giroux

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

— Henry Giroux

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

— Henry Giroux

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified…

— Henry Giroux

You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of…

— Henry Giroux

Rich people live in places so removed from everybody else, they operate in circles so incestuous and so closed, they're off on…

— Henry Giroux

How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution…

— Henry Giroux

Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new…

— Henry Giroux

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact…

— Henry Giroux

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ…

— Henry Giroux

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests…

— Henry Giroux

The media is not about responding to the wishes of people. All you have to do in the United States is turn…

— Henry Giroux

If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which…

— Henry Giroux

And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people…

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What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate…

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The war being waged against the radical imagination, particularly around young people, is just startling. Young people are laboring under a burden…

— Henry Giroux

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning…

— Henry Giroux

I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are…

— Henry Giroux

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

Donald Trump's slogan: "Let's make America great again." And when I hear that, that seems to suggest there was a moment in…

— Henry Giroux

The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as traitors,…

— Henry Giroux

Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular…

— Henry Giroux

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that…

— Henry Giroux

I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something…

— Henry Giroux

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist…

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Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, social…

— Henry Giroux

War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of…

— Henry Giroux

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of…

— Henry Giroux

Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels…

— Henry Giroux

Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of…

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As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate…

— Henry Giroux

A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs,…

— Henry Giroux

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data.

— Henry Giroux

Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create…

— Henry Giroux

Informing people about the world's problems opens up the possibility to address them and change them. Anything else is simply willful ignorance.…

— Henry Giroux

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole…

— Henry Giroux

Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do…

— Henry Giroux

In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has…

— Henry Giroux

All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as…

— Henry Giroux

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,…

— Henry Giroux