Paulo Freire Quotes about Struggle

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Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Minimum

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, p.3, A&C Black

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Reality, Order

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Men, Existential

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Learning, Exercise

Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

Paulo Freire

Real, Struggle, Identity

"The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation". Book by Paulo Freire, 1985.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Men, World

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, p.24, A&C Black

Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "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.

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Organization, People

"Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Organization, 1968.

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Book, Humanity

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Class, Members

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.42, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement in the struggle for their liberation. And in the struggle this pedagogy will be made and remade

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Reflection, Feminist

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Order, Humanity

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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).

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Example, Redemption

It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.

Paulo Freire

Struggle, Responsibility, Essentials

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA