Henry Giroux Quotes

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

I am confident that if we stand for the hope and freedom of others we will make our own freedom more secure.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

All the problems that fall to the League may ultimately be reduced to one - that of man, and the dignity of man.

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

Freedom is not enough.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom—physical, mental, and spiritual—and help others to do so.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

Advocacy is a faith commitment to be part of God's plan for a just world - a world where each person's dignity and worth is valued. A world where everyone has a say in decisions that affect their lives.

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.