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The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

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

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act of love, and in its existentiality, in its praxis.

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Only in the encounter of the people with the revolutionary leaders—in their communion, in their praxis—can this theory be built.

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It is accomplished by the oppressors depositing myths indispensable to the preservation of the status quo.

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The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

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