Not Losing Humanity When Fighting Oppression
Because it is a distortion of being more fully human, sooner or later being less human leads the opressed to struggle against those who made them so.
In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity in both.
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The world is spiralling with global conflicts and one wonders how true change can come about within oppressed societies. Freire’s text remains ardently relevant.
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