The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
Paulo FreireNo one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
Paulo FreireLooking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
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