Paulo Freire Quotes

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

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

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

To affirm my own rights I must define and affirm the rights of others.

If you have respect for people's rights, you will have peace.

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

Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.

I can't speak for the rest, but I think the little India all of us carry in our hearts should be good enough for us individually to take a step to help ensure that same freedom and justice that our constitution guarantees is given to all.

Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

You don't have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.

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.