Paulo Freire Quotes

P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life ho...

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the pole...

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling o...

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that...

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the peo...

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to ...

As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus...

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forg...

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr...

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unj...

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who be...

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearfu...

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the po...

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can unders...

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr...

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. Fa...

...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressi...

P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free...

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us i...

… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…

P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into di...

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, acc...

P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fe...

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to re...

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "...

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

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

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearfu...