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

— Paulo Freire

P71- if I do not love the world if I do not love life if I do not love people I cannot enter into dialogue.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

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 we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

— Paulo Freire

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

— Paulo Freire

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.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

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 an educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.

— Paulo Freire

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.

— Paulo Freire

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

— Paulo Freire