This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.
Paulo FreireEven revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.
Paulo FreireThe revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.
Paulo FreireOne of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
Paulo FreireEvery relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.
Paulo Freire