This work deals with a very obvious truth: just as the oppressor, in order to oppress, needs a theory of oppressive action, so the oppressed, in order to become free, also need a theory of action.

— Paulo Freire Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)

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