Paulo Freire, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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