Attempting Quote by Paulo Freire

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

— Paulo Freire

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

— Nelson Mandela

“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.”

— Paulo Freire

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

— Barbara Deming

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

— Margaret Bourke-White

Liberation creates an individual.

— Ashwani Kumar Ojha

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“But one does not liberate someone by alienating them. Authentic liberation--the process of humanization--is not another deposit to be made in a person. Liberation…

— Paulo Freire

Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think about something…

— Nigel Gibson

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence…

— Charles Bukowski

“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge…

— Paulo Freire

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

— Brian D. McLaren