Contradiction Quote by Paulo Freire

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.

— George Seldes

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

— Lerone Bennett, Jr

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

— Nelson Mandela

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

— Anonymous

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

— James Madison

No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models…

— Paulo Freire

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';

— Paulo Freire

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

— Kim Il-sung

“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models…

— Paulo Freire

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You…

— John Henrik Clarke

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

— David Horowitz

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire