Art Quote by Henry Giroux

“As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.”

Henry Giroux

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History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

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

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