Alex Dawson

“Everywhere and always, when human beings either cannot or dare not take their anger out on the thing that has caused it, they unconsciously search for substitutes, and more often than not they find them.”
― René Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes

“But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or “sub-oppressors.” The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be oppressors. This is their model of humanity.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.”
― Paulo Freire