Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

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.

Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

Make time to relax, refresh and refocus.

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.