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Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.
We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.
As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.
I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?
In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.
If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.
I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.
It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response.
You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.
If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.
I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.
I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.
The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.
There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).
ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.
Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.
Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.
Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.
Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.
Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.
The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.
One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?
There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.
Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.
Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.
There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.