The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
Paulo FreireTags: oppression liberation
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.
Paulo FreireTags: oppression liberation
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.
Paulo FreireTags: oppression liberation
The multitude is always in the wrong.
Paulo FreireThe greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...
Paulo FreireTags: freedom
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo FreireTags: power inequality neutrality powerlessness radicalism
For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.
Paulo FreireLooking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
Paulo FreireTags: oppression liberation
It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.
Paulo FreireThe radical, committed to human liberation, does not become the prisoner of a 'circle of certainty' within which reality is also imprisoned. On the contrary, the more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.
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