Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people—they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

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

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