Revolution Is Born As A Social Entity

This Book Will Present Some Aspects Of What The Writer Has Termed The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, A Pedagogy Which Must Be Forged With, Not For, The Oppressed (whether Individuals Or Peoples) In The Incessant Struggle To Regain Their Humanity.

Freedom Is Acquired By Conquest, Not By Gift. It Must Be Pursued Constantly And Responsibly. Freedom Is Not An Ideal Located Outside Of Man; Nor Is It An Idea Which Becomes Myth. It Is Rather The Indispensable Condition For The Quest For Human Completion.

In Order For This Struggle To Have Meaning, The Oppressed Must Not, In Seeking To Regain Their Humanity (which Is A Way To Create It), Become In Turn Oppressors Of The Oppressors, But Rather Restorers Of The Humanity Of Both

I Have Never Said, As Is Sometimes Believed, Or Even Suggested That Lower-class Children Should Not Learn The So-called Educated Norm Of The Portuguese Language Of Brazil. What I Have Said Is That The Problems Of Language Always Involve Ideological Questions And, Along With Them, Questions Of Power.

It Is Necessary That The Weakness Of The Powerless Is Transformed Into A Force Capable Of Announcing Justice. For This To Happen, A Total Denouncement Of Fatalism Is Necessary. We Are Transformative Beings And Not Beings For Accommodation.