Paulo Freire Quotes

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

We are a revolutionary country with a revolutionary tradition. We want everyone to be democrats.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

We need a strategy. And the goal is to bring millions of people together.

Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?

People ask me a lot, 'what can one person do,' and I say 'I'm not really sure what one person can due except come together with other people.'

I think it's going to open up a wider place for a discussion about we ought to come together in our churches, in our neighborhoods, in our work places, in our clubs and our networks. I think it'll be more acceptable to talk about it. We'll see what happens. It'll take some time. But I think it will.

WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place

I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

Let's try and bring out the best in all of us and a positive vision of working together to solve big problems, to recognize that, yes, all is not right, things need to be fixed. We're better off solving things by working together than by pointing fingers at other people.

There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.

... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace.

No one makes a revolution by himself.

Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.