Henry Giroux Quotes

The government protects corporations, not people and other animals.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.

I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the obscene amassing of wealth of US corporations is part of the same system of the exclusion and war that is being waged by these corporations in places like India, Africa and the Middle East.

The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.

I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy.

Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.