Henry Giroux

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.

— Henry Giroux

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

— Henry Giroux

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

— Henry Giroux

Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

— Henry Giroux

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

— Henry Giroux

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

— Henry Giroux

Everyone is now a potential terrorist.

— Henry Giroux

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

— Henry Giroux

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing…

— Henry Giroux

Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

— Henry Giroux

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the…

— Henry Giroux

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

— Henry Giroux

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

— Henry Giroux

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

— Henry Giroux

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United…

— 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

The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential…

— 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

Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a…

— 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

The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions…

— Henry Giroux

We're talking about the Communist Party, the Socialist worker's movement, those movements basically have been underlined. We have other movements, but they're…

— Henry Giroux

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

Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being…

— Henry Giroux

The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack…

— Henry Giroux

Schools should be democratic public spheres. They should be places that educate people to be informed, to learn how to govern rather…

— Henry Giroux

[Hillary Clinton] sort of very cautious kind of uncomfortable, clumsy interaction with the black lives movement, who are very smart in recognizing…

— Henry Giroux

I think in light of the other two registers that you mention, there's also that moment. I mean, to what degree do…

— Henry Giroux

Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as…

— Henry Giroux

There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can…

— Henry Giroux

Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which…

— Henry Giroux

It's much better to talk about the media as a system of propaganda and abuse, of manufactured consent, than it is to…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful.

— Henry Giroux

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

— Henry Giroux

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

— Henry Giroux

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

— Henry Giroux

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

— Henry Giroux

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

— Henry Giroux

I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

— Henry Giroux

A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and…

— Henry Giroux