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“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
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“The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...”
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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
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“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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