A Quote by Paulo Freire

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

Paulo Freire

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Greatest Historical Humanistic Liberate Oppressed Task Themselves

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Paulo Freire
Brazilian - Educator
September 19, 1921 - May 2, 1997

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

Nelson Mandela

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

Kim Il-sung

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

Kirsten Powers

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

Julien Green

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Nelson Mandela

Why would we expect the French to fight to liberate the Iraqis when they wouldn't fight to liberate themselves?

Rush Limbaugh

Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.

Paulo Freire

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.

Jonathan Mayhew

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to oppress themselves, and ourselves, within it.

Trevante Rhodes

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

Brian Eno

Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

Desmond Tutu

My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.

Septima Poinsette Clark

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

Paulo Freire

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