Paulo Freire Quotes:
Ocupation: Educator
Life: September 19, 1921 - May 2, 1997
Birthday: September 19
Death: May 2
Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.
source: Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
topic: Welfare Programs, Manipulation, Causes, Anesthetics
