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.

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. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

realism.”Manipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process,...

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

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.

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the “rejects of life,” to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving...

[The myth of the absolutizing of ignorance] implies the existence of someone who decrees the ignorance of someone else. The one who is doing the decreeing defines himself and the class to which he belongs...

I was maybe 19 years old. And I always remember that it was a great feeling of happiness. Because of that, I said to Myles that it’s no different for me if I am read­ing...

PAs long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically “accept” their exploitation.

P20 – The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves…

POppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

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

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...

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...

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

I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people’s thinking is superstitious or naive,it is only as they rethink their assumptions in action that they can...

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...

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in...

Pone does not liberate people by alienating them. Pconsciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

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

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

Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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.

… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when...

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.

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

Pword is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

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

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the...

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

Pif i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.