Paulo Freire Quotes
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.
P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.
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.
P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.
...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.
… 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.
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.