Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

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.

She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

My expectations for the future? A beautiful past.

A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.