Paulo Freire Quotes

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

Education in France is used to inculcate the values of the state.

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

The more people that understand and are made able to spot liberalism, and then the more people are able to associate liberalism with the problems in their lives, the political problems, the economic problems, the more people can be conditioned and educated to understand that liberalism is the problem, coupled with the ability to spot it, would be the fastest way to eradicate it. It would be really helpful if we had a Republican Party engaged in this.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can’t succeed without your help.

You can't expect people who didn't exist as a community at all until about twenty years ago to have formed a political movement. This attack on the LGBT community was very shocking to the people who consider themselves to be activists. They're basically playing in the sandbox, and there's a tank coming! And what are they supposed to do - use the plastic shovel to push the tank back? But since the homosexual propaganda legislation, people have really stepped up, educated themselves politically, and grown by leaps and bounds.

Millions of people are getting the vote, and we have to educate them to keep them from our throats. In other words, we have to train them in obedience and servility, so they're not going to think through the way the world works and come after our throats.

We have got to mobilize people and rethink our commitment in terms of what our role is in the political process.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama, not Bernie Sanders, no one person has the influence by himself or herself to take on this enormous array of power unless millions of people begin to work together to demand changes.

There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.

There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost.

Almost all education has a political motive.

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news.

A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.

We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.