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“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
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“To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.”
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“No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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