Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
12 quotes
"As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait."
"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."
"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."
"True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world."
"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"
"… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…"
"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."
"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"."
"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."
"P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both."
"P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women."