I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.
Henry GirouxThe Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think about the common sense assumptions that drive their lives, then you've got an ideological foundation for totalitarianism that not only destroys the capacity to think critically, it destroys the capacity to have convictions at all.
Henry GirouxWar is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.
Henry GirouxFDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the workers. And I think that today you don't have those movements.
Henry Giroux