Henry Giroux Quotes

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Only force would produce social change.

Rights did not just fall out of the sky. They were the result of struggle.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

You can try and kill my body but you cannot kill my cause.

I don’t think that scholars and writers can stand on the sidelines when it comes to fascism and Nazism. There is nothing good to be said of them, and they need to be opposed. I didn’t want to simply write a history that would give people a sense of what happened. I wanted to bring the voices of anti-fascists who have been confronting these heinous ideologies, these heinous groups for decades. I wanted to bring their perspectives, their experiences, their outlooks, their successes and failures to readers in a way that encourages them to learn from them and apply some of these lessons to their own struggles against their local neo-Nazis or fascists.

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

Millennials don't go to rallies.

Anything I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher's government out I was prepared to do. I could not believe what she was doing to this country.

Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.

We won't stop protesting. It's the engine that moves society forward.

Young people, throughout history, have always been the lifeblood of every movement for civil and human rights.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

My father believed in armed struggle.

You're telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games, and they paid 30 years of their lives because of that gesture. And you're telling me a superstar who put one fist in the air is a revolutionary? But that's the superficiality of this time.

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...