Henry Giroux quotes

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. (Henry Giroux)
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is. View quote
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. View quote
Henry Giroux
America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. View quote
Henry Giroux
Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy. View quote
Henry Giroux
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. View quote
Henry Giroux
A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and not just to him or herself. View quote
Henry Giroux
Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations. View quote
Henry Giroux
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment. View quote
Henry Giroux
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance. View quote
Henry Giroux