Paulo Freire Quotes
Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.
Quotes to Explore
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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Do not, the angel told her, 'ask to see him. His love is a flood. His glory is a fire. You could not withstand it.
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Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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I want to trace my own path by doing the things I have been doing, winning titles, reaching goals.
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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.
