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We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, We've had enough, we are going to take over.

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. . . studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

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The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

Become, Liberation, Oppressors, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Strive

No reality transforms itself.

Educational, Philosophy, Reality, Transforms

In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.

Men, People, Practice, Take, Women

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

Essential, Essentials, Inferiority, Invasion, Succeed

An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah. ” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

Commitment, Denounce, Elements, Reality, Reflection, Verbalism
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