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“For Freire, political literacy clearly matters, not just actual illiteracy. Indeed, as we will see, actual literacy is, at best, a secondary concern. He feels this way because, in keeping with Karl Marx, whose theology he adopted in full, man’s true nature lies in gaining the power to transform the world (into a socialist utopia through relentless critique of what is), and his ability to participate in this process of political activism and transformation is the most fundamental aspect of his being and his key human right.”
― James Lindsay, The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education

“suchlike.”
― Christa Schroeder, He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary

“As for the accusation that he, Roosevelt, belonged to the landlord class, “if you had any conception of the true American spirit you would know that we do not have ‘classes’ at all on this side of the water.”
― Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

“It isn't an apple, it's half an apple- the discreet thing they are seeing only resembles an apple because they are not aware of the other half being gone. In some other reality we might consider halves-of-apples as discreet units and what we call in this reality a full apple to be merely “two half-apples.” This is a profoundly important statement on reality; it isn't even real.”
― Tarl Warwick, Occult Memetics: Reality Manipulation