For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in a revolution. Whether one calls this correct thinking 'revolutionary consciousness' or 'class consciousness,' it is an indispensable precondition of revolution. The dominant elites are so well aware of this fact that they instinctively use all means, including physical violence, to keep people from thinking.


Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

Paulo Freire Quotes

For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes...

For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes...

For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes...

For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes...