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.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
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Horace Greeley
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
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Malcolm X
And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express
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Wilhelm Reich
Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for – because one...
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Suzy Kassem
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
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Ayn Rand
More Quotes By Paulo Freire
As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.
In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power, ” forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible “dialogue” with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated...
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.
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.
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...
