With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.


Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition (ed. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2014) - ISBN: 9781501305320

Paulo Freire Quotes

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed....

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed....

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed....

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed....