It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Education is freedom. Education will teach you how to do it yourself as opposed to asking someone else to do it for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The radical, committed to human liberation, does not become the prisoner of a 'circle of certainty' within which reality is also imprisoned.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“But one does not liberate someone by alienating them. Authentic liberation--the process of humanization--is not another deposit to be made in a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“if i am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather transform it, and if it is not possible to change… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“When a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“If I do not love the world, if I do not love life, if I do not love people, I cannot enter into dialogue.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
“The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share
