Paulo Freire The Great Humanistic And Historical Task Of...

Paulo Freire was one of the many theorist we covered this semester and he was one of them how refer that the oppressed had to be the oppressors. One statement he made in the reading Freire (1992) â€Å"the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed† is to â€Å"liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.†(1). His statement is very powerful to the point where he is making us think that the only way to have humanity is that they have to act as the oppressors towards the people who are oppressing them so that they can see that it s a problem that both groups have to transformed into a freedom. â€Å"Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both†(1). I also find this quote of him very important to what he means being oppressors against the group that oppresses them very important because their struggle as the oppressed group is to make others realize that it s a problem that has to be fixed befor e it becomes more of a bigger deal and more violence methods erupt. Some of the methods that Freire used for his argument was one being the oppressor. Freire (1992) says that â€Å" Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both† (p.1). Meaning that he refers it as the oppressed group gains the power to oppressed their oppressors the group will realize how wrong they are and it s when they start to weaken and come to peace. He also suggests that in order to gain that freedom theyShow MoreRelatedDeveloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 PagesBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Kim S. Cameron UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Editor in Chief: Eric Svendsen Acquisitions Editor: Kim Norbuta Editorial Project Manager: Claudia Fernandes Director of Marketing: Patrice Lumumba Jones Marketing Manager: