If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my … - Paulo Freire

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Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

Paulo Freire

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

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

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

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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.

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