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

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


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Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.



Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.



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Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.



The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.



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The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.



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America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.



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War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.



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It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.



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Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.





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My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.



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