Paulo Freire Quotes

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down.

Aren't we all human? Don't we all deserve to be respected and treated equally?

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

We can't say that we believe in each other's fundamental humanity, and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each other's existence, and the truth of each others' hearts. We must be allies and we must be allies in this business, because to be represented is to be humanized, and as long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

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

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

Everybody is somebody's Jew.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

there's no justice, there's only love.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.