Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

To have hope is to be happy.

It is always harder to climb the mountain. One must find strength of hope within the depths of heart to move onward.

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

Good or bad is created by humans and pertains only to them.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.