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Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
Paulo Freire
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Paulo Freire
Age: 75 †
Born: 1921
Born: October 19
Died: 1997
Died: May 2
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Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.
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Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.
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It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.
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At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.
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It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.
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