"Pedagogy that begins with the egoistic interests of the oppressors (an egoism cloaked in the false generosity of paternalism) and makes the oppressed the objects of its humanitarianism, itself maintains and embodies oppression. It is an instrument of dehumanization." -Paulo Freire.

"But in the end, as history has repeatedly shown, it will not be the privileged who liberate the oppressed, but the oppressed who will wrest power away from the privileged."

Crtiical Pedagogy and the Crisis of Imagination, Eric J. Weiner in Critical Pedagogy: Where are we now? pg. 61