Death Quote by Joan Wallach Scott

Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue…

— Joan Wallach Scott

The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene salaries made…

— Joan Wallach Scott

Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to what happens…

— Joan Wallach Scott

There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas are presented.…

— Joan Wallach Scott

I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy which treats…

— Joan Wallach Scott

We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the…

— Joan Wallach Scott

I think the anger that is being directed to universities and so-called elites at universities is actually an anger that's displaced from politicians (who…

— Joan Wallach Scott

I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's more about…

— Joan Wallach Scott

The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to…

— Joan Wallach Scott

Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American…

— Joan Wallach Scott

What I mean by the common good is that we understand we're all part of something bigger than ourselves, that we live in societies…

— Joan Wallach Scott

All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted…

— Joan Wallach Scott