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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Determination Dialogue Hope Oppression Waiting

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 impossible “dialogue” with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls in an elitist game, which it calls “realism.”Manipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in revolution…One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Failure Success

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Advice Culture Education Politics

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What an educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Education Educational Philosophy Pedagogy Teaching

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Inequality Neutrality Power Powerlessness Radicalism

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

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Paulo Freire Consciousness Liberation Oppression Reality

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Childhood Comprehension Creativity Education Understanding Youth

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Learning Teaching

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Community Compassion Love

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Consciousness Critical Thinking Knowledge

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Knowledge And Power Language

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new Culture of Silence.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Modern Society Oppression Technology

P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Fear Freedom Liberation Sacrifice

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Art Education Empowerment Teaching

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Empowerment Poor Power Revolution

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Community Connecting

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Conflict War

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Materialism Social Injustice

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Inspirational Political

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.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Liberation Oppression

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.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Liberation Oppression

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Liberation Oppression

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.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Liberation Oppression

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Oppressed Oppression Question Revolutionary Why

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Oppressed Oppression Question Revolutionary

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 responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Freedom Oppression

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Oppression

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Adam Gottbetter Dehumanisation Dehumanization Education System Educational Educational System Oppression

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Confidence People Leaders

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Information Liberating

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.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Solution Students Teachers

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 those who control the power in that society.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Power Society Control

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

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Image Oppressed Oppressor
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