Paulo Freire - Leaders Quotes

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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.

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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.

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

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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

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Scientific and humanist revolutionary leaders, on the other hand, cannot believe in the myth of the ignorance of the people.

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Only in the encounter of the people with the revolutionary leaders—in their communion, in their praxis—can this theory be built.

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Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task.

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The task of revolutionary leaders is to pose as problems not only this myth, but all the other myths used by the oppressor elites to oppress.

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Finally, cultural revolution develops the practice of permanent dialogue between leaders and people and consolidates the participation of the people in power.

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The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.

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