Burden Quote by Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism eats its own children. Disposability is central to how neoliberalism functions. I would not like to romanticize that, though, by suggesting that it…

— Henry Giroux

But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition…

— Adrienne Rich

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning of a…

— Henry Giroux

Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering…

— Bakari Kitwana

Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create bonds of…

— Henry Giroux

We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need…

— Henry Giroux

In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has been increasingly…

— Henry Giroux

Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a future…

— Henry Giroux

If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative…

— Henry Giroux

Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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