Paulo Freire

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

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.

Looking 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.

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

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.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

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

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

_ Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle_

...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.

P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

P29 - the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".

As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone