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Oppression Quotes by Paulo Freire
- The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are…
- This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle…
- Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt…
- In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of…
- In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a…
- The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
- Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are…
- To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a…
- Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build…
- Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly…
- Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which…
More Oppression Quotes
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou
- In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was… — Gerry Adams
- All oppression creates a state of war. — Simone de Beauvoir
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
- Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte
- Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. — Harry Belafonte
- I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel
- Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis
- Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
- God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. — Luis Bunuel
- In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke