It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.
Paulo FreireThe former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.
Paulo FreireThe hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
Paulo FreireA fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.
Paulo FreireIt is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.
Paulo Freire