Civics Quote by Henry Giroux

Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist…

— Henry Giroux

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a…

— Lewis Henry Morgan

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In…

— Thomas Sowell

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for…

— Mark Kingwell

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

— Ambrose Bierce

We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves…

— Dean Spade

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled…

— Henry Giroux

“The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and…

— Greg Forster

The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the…

— Allan Bloom

When you keep un-bundling various aspects of a social problem, you can arrive at a very basic, common space.

— Rohini Nilekani

Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

— Henry Giroux

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the…

— James Howard Kunstler