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"More and more people are trying to fight this impending disaster, by struggling for environmental justice, questioning industrial food production, growing guerilla gardens and bringing knowledge of global warming to a mass public."

"Capitalism has created a world where the majority are unemployed and impoverished, many work longer and longer hours for less and less return, and a small ruling class extracts all the labor and wealth from everyone else."

"to that end, it is important that this book is bilingual, so that it can be used by both Spanish and English speaking activist communities. Despite the historical under-representation of women in the realm of political graphics-men not only dominate art and design scenes, but also the realm of political activism more generally-women have played a key role in the development of this art form."

"Thus the content of education springs from the peasants themselves and their relations with the world, and transforms and broadens itself as the world become revealed to them."

"Education is communication and dialogue. It is not the transference of knowledge, but the encounter of Subjects in dialogue in search of the significance of the object of knowing and thinking." Paulo Freire

"Agrarian reform should be a process of development which will result in the modernization of the rural areas along with the modernization of agriculture. If this is how agrarian reform is seen, the modernization resulting …strictly speaking this would not be a "passage," but rather the superposition of the new on the old." —Paulo Friere

"It was just pure insanity... From the standpoint of rational politics and organization we were out of our minds. On the other hand, as a response to what was going on in Vietnam, it was a response of total outrage… So even though it was totally crazy as a political act, history can't, doesn't, hasn't condemned it." –Cathy Wilkerson Weather Underground

"It was settled, we would be known as … C.S.P. Children's Strike for Peace: Near the end of the 1960s, and quite unanticipated by SDS leaders, high schoolers began coming to demonstrations and then actually chartering SDS chapters."

"In Mississippi we saw that people sometimes have to depend on each other for their lives, men and women. So we learned to be more honest about saying that certain behavior is foolish or self-destructive… If those girls were involved in the movement they wouldn't have time for fraternity games, and you guys wouldn't sit here and talk about them like that either!"

"Every newspaper headline is a potential song" –Phil Ochs

Dialogue cannot imprison itself in any antagonistic relationship. Dialogue is the loving encounter of people, who, mediated by the world, "proclaim" that world. They transform the world and in transforming it, humanize it for all people. This encounter in love cannot be an encounter of irreconcilables.

"Knowledge is not extended from those who consider that they know to those who consider that they do not know. Knowledge is built up in the relation between human beings in the world, relations of transformation, and perfects itself in the critical problematization of these relations."

"Two nights a week I would leave campus, speak to families about their troubles, help them fill out official city forms, and encourage the formation of an organized council to negotiate with the landlord." Mark Naison

"March 1970 saw the effective end of the weathermen. Five of them moved into a townhouse in Greenwich Village. While they were tinkering with a bomb in the basement it exploded, killing three…"

"I can see validity only in a literacy program in which men understand words in their significance: as a force to transform the world. As illiterate men discover the relativity of ignorance and of wisdom, they destroy one of the myths by which false elites have manipulated them."

"Radical or revolutionary consciousness…is the perception of oneself as unfree, as oppressed. Our primary task at this stage of development is the encouragement or building of revolutionary consciousness." Greg Calvert

"The man made the well because he needed water. And he did it because, relating to the world, he made the latter the object of his knowledge. By work, he submitted the world to a process of transformation."

"All night long, I thought of that phrase: 'To die a martyr is to inject blood into the veins of society.' Niloufar was a real martyr, and her blood certainly did not feed our society's veins."

"Our country has always known war and martyrs. So like my father said: 'When a big wave comes, lower your head and let it pass!'" That's very Persian. The philosophy of resignation.

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"From that point of departure, the illiterate would begin to effect a change in his formed attitudes, by discovering himself to be a maker of the world of culture, by discovering that he, as well as the literate person, has a creative and re-creative impulse."

"From that point of departure, the illiterate would begin to effect a change in his formed attitudes, by discovering himself to be a maker of the world of culture, by discovering that he, as well as the literate person, has a creative and re-creative impulse."

"From that point of departure, the illiterate would begin to effect a change in his formed attitudes, by discovering himself to be a maker of the world of culture, by discovering that he, as well as the literate person, has a creative and re-creative impulse."

"From that point of departure, the illiterate would begin to effect a change in his formed attitudes, by discovering himself to be a maker of the world of culture, by discovering that he, as well as the literate person, has a creative and re-creative impulse."

"From that point of departure, the illiterate would begin to effect a change in his formed attitudes, by discovering himself to be a maker of the world of culture, by discovering that he, as well as the literate person, has a creative and re-creative impulse."