Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability. — 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
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
We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed… — 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
This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see… — 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
There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. So… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial… — 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
Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways… — 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
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — 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
