I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
In this particular historical moment, the notion of conjuncture helps us to address theoretically how youth protests are largely related to a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
People often say that Trump "speaks the truth," right? But I think what really is happening is he's become a symbol of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The war being waged against the radical imagination, particularly around young people, is just startling. Young people are laboring under a burden… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate… — 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
Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Young people, under the social contract, suggest a long term investment. What we have today is a government that believes that young… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 war on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
