Henry Giroux Quotes - Page 7

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• What is invaluable about Angela Davis work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

  Henry Giroux

  Issues, Limits, Doe

  "Angela Davis, Education and the Meaning of Freedom" by Henry A. Giroux, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money from important social services and public and higher education.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Fighting, Important

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics of a form of economic Darwinism that now governs much of the world. This system must be demystified, politicized, and recognized for the ways in which it has come to pose a dire threat to democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Political Language, Democracy, Needs

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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

  Henry Giroux

  Horizon, Ends, Appeals

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education.

  Henry Giroux

  Training, Citizens, Spheres

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Critical Analysis, Cost

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic complex by presenting the ideologies, institutions and relations of the powerful as commonsense.

  Henry Giroux

  Powerful, Military, Machines

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating in the 1930s that seem to be, in many ways, to have been weakened or disappeared. And of course the beginning of the 21st century, I mean, you have - at one level you had massive social movements.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices of capitalism.

  Henry Giroux

  Powerful, Party, Organization

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• FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the workers. And I think that today you don't have those movements.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, Movement

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Ideas, Social

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I mean, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, the Black Lives Movement, it's very difficult to, in a sense, especially since the 1980s, to talk about what the social contract is and what it means, and what it means to celebrate public goods, what it means to make, create social investments.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Black, Movement

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think about surviving.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.

  Henry Giroux

  Class, Comfort, Finance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social state has been decimated. And the question becomes, how is finance capital, how does the 1 percent now resort to governing? And they govern basically through a form of lawlessness and what I call the punishing state, in which we've had a punishment creep, and now it moves from the prison to almost every institution in society, from airports to schools to social services.

  Henry Giroux

  Moving, School, Thinking

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

  Henry Giroux

  Past, Principles, Degrees

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Violence, Spheres

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream media, we no longer see it in the schools. I mean, this endless criminalization, militarization, of every form of behavior, I mean, strikes me as one of the most dangerous and one of the most ever-growing threats to the United States, of which that speech exemplifies perfectly, and which [Donald] Trump exemplifies with the endless call for law and order.

  Henry Giroux

  School, Mean, Media

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Henry Giroux

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All of this in [Donald] Trump now has become so overt that it's difficult when we talk about repression not to talk about white supremacy, not to talk about its legacy, from slavery to lynching to mass incarceration, and what it has developed into.

  Henry Giroux

  Lynching, White, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We're talking about race. It's ideology, it's a mode of policy. It's a practice. And it intertwines with class in a very specific way to create something very distinctive that we see now being legitimated in the United States by fascists who absolutely are unapologetic about what they're saying.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Talking, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The real question is, until [Hillary Clinton] faces that legacy and admits that what her husband did was absolutely in the interest of a white supremacist nation, to put it bluntly, I just don't trust her.

  Henry Giroux

  Husband, Real, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Henry Giroux

  Black, President, Bills

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• I think the other side of this is that while the contradictions matter, one of the things that you cannot lose sight of is that even with a guy like [George] Soros the thing that he doesn't question, which does unify that class, is that they don't want to get rid of the capitalist system, they don't see an alternative.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Sight, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that's where we can both seize upon the contradictions and push them to limits that these people would not consider, while at the same time in some way you're taking advantage of what these people are saying within a discourse that has some legitimacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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