Paulo Freire

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin or their background or their religion."

"Commit yourself to the struggle, and you will become transformed by it."

"Our aspirations as human beings must always be measured by our capacities for love and justice."

"The humanism of man, after all, is the only humanism which will allow the other humanisms to achieve authenticity."

"Praxis is action and reflection upon the world in order to transform it."

"We cannot be truly human without freedom."

"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well."

"One cannot be fully human while preventing others from being so."

"Critical consciousness is the result of cultural action, not of cultural invasion."

"Dialogue is the essence of education, for it is through dialogue that growth happens."

"The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world."

"Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly."

"Language is consciousness, it is critical thought, and critical thought cannot exist without language."

"To be aware of my reality is to perceive its injustices."

"Hope is rooted in men's incompleteness, from which men's very existence springs."

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

"Humanization is the vocation of humanity."

"Critical pedagogy is an act of knowing and not just the transmission of information."

"Solidarity requires that one enter into the situation of those with whom one is solidary; it is a radical posture."

"To deny the right to work is to deny a fundamental right of the human person."

"The fundamental theme of our epoch is that of domination, which implies its opposite, the theme of liberation."

"Banking education serves the interests of oppression; it inhibits creativity and domesticates consciousness."

"I must be who I am, and I am called to be in solidarity with all those who struggle for liberation."

"The process of humanization must be pursued by the oppressed themselves, not for them by the oppressors."

"A person, who cannot read the world, cannot understand their place in it."

"Authentic existence is only possible through authentic dialogue."

"Conscientization is not a matter of transferring information but of awakening consciousness."

"In order for man not to be dehumanized, he must not dehumanize others."

"One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people."

"The pedagogy of the oppressed begins with the teacher-student and student-teacher reading the world together."