Noam Chomsky Quotes About Struggle

• There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Taken, Struggle

• Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and unpretentiously with courageous and committed struggle for justice and dignity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, People, Justice

  "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.

• Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Struggle, America

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

• Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Struggle, Rights

  "Noam Chomsky on Love: 'Life's Empty Without It'". Big think Interview, bigthink.com. August 18, 2009.

• In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Struggle, Class

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

• For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Struggle, Rights

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

• History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Records, Painful

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

• Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Long, Madison

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

• What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civil, social and economic, and broadly cultural, to adopt the framework of the Universal Declaration that is formally endorsed but constantly undermined.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Rights, Economic

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

• Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Struggle, Long

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.85, Metropolitan Books

• You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Winning, Understanding

  Source: www.iww.org

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