Democracy Quotes by Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian…

— 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

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

— Henry Giroux

As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be,…

— Henry Giroux

Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits…

— Henry Giroux

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just…

— Henry Giroux

The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education…

— Henry Giroux

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in…

— Henry Giroux

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

Neoliberalism is going to fail by being replaced. The system is entirely broken. Whenever you have a system that equates a market…

— Henry Giroux

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

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced,…

— Henry Giroux

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

I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these…

— Henry Giroux

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

We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics…

— 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

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

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses…

— 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

Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced…

— Henry Giroux

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

— Henry Giroux

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

The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.

— Henry Giroux

Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it.…

— Henry Giroux

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

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can…

— Henry Giroux

State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite…

— Henry Giroux

The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of…

— Henry Giroux

Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of…

— 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

If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that…

— Henry Giroux

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

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

If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which…

— Henry Giroux

Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's…

— Henry Giroux

Occupy did something fabulous. What Occupy made clear was that there is an inequality at the heart of American democracy that undermines…

— Henry Giroux

I think that contradictions, unless they're understood, unless they're analyzed, unless they're thoughtfully probed, unless people have a sense of what those…

— Henry Giroux

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

When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it…

— Henry Giroux