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“Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means used are not important; to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.”
~Paulo Freire, in “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
—Albert Camus
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
“Freedom is the concern of the oppressed, and her natural protectors have always come from among the oppressed” - Albert Camus, in Bread and Freedom
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
-Terry Pratchett
The problem of causality. It is not always easy to determine what has caused a specific change in a science. What made such a discovery possible? Why did this new concept appear?
Michel Foucault • The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
— Philip Pullman