The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, … - Henry Giroux

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For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,". . . "By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

Henry Giroux

The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines.

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