Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of … - Henry Giroux

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I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Henry Giroux

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ violence in ways that make people quite fearful.

Attempt, Consciousness, Make, People, Thinking, Way

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The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Book, Illiteracy, Knowing, Reading, World

When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it and to engage in dialog with it, but basically to label it as anarchy and to repress it with the most violent, in the most violent means possible. I mean, that's essentially an element of neofascism. That's not about democracy.

Democracy, Dissent, Element, Labels, Mean, Violent

It seems to me that we make a terrible mistake in talking about Trump as some kind of essence of evil. Trump is symptomatic of something much deeper in the culture, whether we're talking about the militarization of everyday life, whether we're talking about the criminalization of social problems, or whether we're talking about the way in which money has absolutely corrupted politics. This is a country that is sliding into authoritarianism.

Country, Evil, Life, Mistake, Symptomatic, Trump

We have in this country something remarkable. We have the local version of the Soviets' Pravda. It trades in ignorance and lies and opinions, and makes the claim that they are "truth," and it does so with people who are stupid, who don't know anything, and are basically entertainers. It merges a fundamentalist ideology with celebrity culture.

Country, Entertainers, Fundamentalist, Lying, People, Stupid

Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world.

Critical, Critically, Intellectual, People, Self, Sense

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Elizabeth Wein

I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.

Character, Emotional, Nature, Props, Sympathy, Thinking

Paul Washer

If you're going to choose your friends, you better choose them well, because when you look at your friends, you're looking at a mirror reflection. You're looking at you; you are looking at you.

Choose, Friends, Look, Looks, Mirrors, Reflection

Patricia Briggs

That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

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Sydney Brenner

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

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Susan Howe

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

Character, Moving, Space, Syllable, Think, Thinking