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„Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.“

—  Paulo Freire, книга Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Источник: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

„Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.“

—  Paulo Freire

„True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act of love, and in its existentiality, in its praxis.“

—  Paulo Freire

Источник: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1, on the oppressors

„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, книга Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Источник: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

„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.“

—  Paulo Freire, книга Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Источник: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 2

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

—  Paulo Freire

Источник: The Politics of Education (1985), Chapter 10, page 122

„If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed“

—  Paulo Freire

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

—  Paulo Freire, книга Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Источник: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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

—  Paulo Freire, книга Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Источник: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)

„No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.“

—  Paulo Freire

„Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.“

—  Paulo Freire

„language is never neutral“

—  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

Источник: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

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

—  Paulo Freire

„The educator has the duty of not being neutral.“

—  Paulo Freire

Источник: We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

„The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.“

—  Paulo Freire, книга Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Источник: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1, on the oppressed

„It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.“

—  Paulo Freire, книга Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Источник: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

„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“

—  Paulo Freire, книга Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Источник: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1

„The multitude is always in the wrong.“

—  Paulo Freire