Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

Popular Topics
Fly, Dream, Job, Kindness, Air, Life, Think, Disco, Important, Surprised, Acknowledge, Impossible, Achievement, Snows, Loves, Future, Good, Ideas, Culture, Peace Love, Possible, Drama, Fitness, Scholar, Peace And Love, Thing, Humble, Funny, World, Dance, Path Of Love, Hip Hop, Things, Inspiring, Music, Inspired, America, Philosophy, Leadership, Memorable, Butterfly, Lifetime, Feeling, Inspire, Live, Bear, Knowledge, Goodbye, Food, Life Is Good
Paulo Freire

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

Struggle, Reality, Order, World, Exit, Transform
Same Author Quotes

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

Become, Liberation, Oppressors, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Strive

No reality transforms itself.

Educational, Philosophy, Reality, Transforms

In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

Men, People, Practice, Take, Women

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

Essential, Essentials, Inferiority, Invasion, Succeed

An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah. ” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

Commitment, Denounce, Elements, Reality, Reflection, Verbalism
Similar Quotes