Unsure if this is the right sub to use, but I’m going crazy trying to find the original source of Paulo Freire’s supposed quote “Language is never neutral”. I’ve found it referenced all over the internet and they keep linking it back to Pedagogy of the Oppressed, but I can’t seem to find it anywher in the book. Is this a translation issue, book version issue, doesn’t exist in the book but outside of it, or doesn’t exist anywhere?
I would so greatly appreciate assistance as I can’t tell if it’s my failing to find it, or if it doesn’t exist, and it has me at a standstill in my referencing.