“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
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“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
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“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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