It's No Sin To Make A Critical

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.

[humans'] Capacity To Intervene, To Compare, To Judge, To Decide, To Choose, To Desist Makes Them Capable Of Acts Of Greatness, Of Dignity, And, At The Same Time, Of The Unthinkable In Terms Of Indignity.

Even Revolution, Which Transforms A Concrete Situation Of Oppression By Establishing The Process Of Liberation, Must Confront This Phenomenon. Many Of The Oppressed Who Directly Or Indirectly Participate In Revolution Intend - Conditioned By The Myths Of The Old Order - To Make It Their Private Revolution. The Shadow Of Their Former Oppressor Is Still Cast Over Them.

The More People Participate In The Process Of Their Own Education, And The More People Participate In Defining What Kind Of Production To Produce, And For What And Why, The More People Participate In The Development Of Their Selves. The More People Become Themselves, The Better The Democracy.