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“The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“The multitude is always in the wrong.”
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“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...”
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“It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only themselves. It is not the helpless, subject to terror, who initiate terror, but the violent, who with their power create the concrete situation which begets the 'rejects of life.' It is not the tyrannized who initiate despotism, but the tyrants. It is not those whose humanity is denied them who negate humankind, but those who denied that humanity (thus negating their own as well). Force is used not by those who have become weak under the preponderance of the strong, but by the strong who have emasculated them.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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