Education is freedom.
Category Archive: 1921
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers’ blood.
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for liberation. The content of that dialogue can and should vary in accordance with historical conditions and the level at which the oppressed perceive reality.
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
It’s no sin to make a critical study of Brazil’s reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don’t.