Paulo Freire Short Quotes

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Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.

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Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

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The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors.

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Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning.

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The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

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Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them...

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Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

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Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

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To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

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It is necessary to trust in the oppressed and in their ability to reason.

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No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

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Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

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A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

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It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

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Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

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The culture of the dominant class hinders the affirmation of men as beings of decision.

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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors

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For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

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They have no consciousness of themselves as persons or as members of an oppressed class.

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Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

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The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

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While no one liberates himself by his own efforts alone, neither is he liberated by others.

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

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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

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Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

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The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people—not to win them over.

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It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

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How can the oppressed, as divided unauthentic beings, participate in the pedagogy of their liberation?

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