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.

— Paulo Freire

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".

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

P29 - the oppressed, having internalized 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.

— Paulo Freire

P33- Oppression 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.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

— Paulo Freire