Quotes by Paulo Freire

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

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

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

“Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”

“It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of tho...”

“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 they liberated: they oppress.”

“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 the future.”

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

“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 sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders. ”

“The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and res...”

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

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

“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 in turn dehumanizes the oppressed”

“In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impo...”

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

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