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“...reality is really a process, undergoing constant transformation.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“As a wise woman once said, “You know the problem with heroes and Saints? They always end up dead.” In fact, we all end up dead. But people who steal books have a truly miserable afterlife.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints

“With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as op­pressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior situation of violence to establish their subjugation.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“...in the re­sponse of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love may be found. Consciously or unconsciously, the act of rebellion by the oppressed (an act which is always, or nearly always, as violent as the initial violence of the oppressors) can initiate love.”
― Paulo Freire