The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.” — 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 behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — 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
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — 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
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects… — 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
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
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
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their… — 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
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
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
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
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
No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their… — 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 more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or… — 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
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
The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to… — 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
“Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.” — 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
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to… — 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
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in… — 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
Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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