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“The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.”
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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
“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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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
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“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...”
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