“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that,… — 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
The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different… — 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
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
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — 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
