286 Quotes by Paulo Freire

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Education is freedom.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.

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

Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. People are not built in silence, but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.