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“Hence the churches give the impression of moving while actually they are standing still. They create the illusion of marching on while stabilizing themselves. They die because they refuse to die… Their language conceals rather than reveals. It speaks of the poor or of the under privilege rather than the oppressed.“

“The traditionalist church, first of all, is still intensely colonialist. It is a missionary church, and the worst sense of the word.-a necrophiliac winner of souls; hence its taste for masochistic emphasis on sin, hellfire, and internal damnation. The mundane, dichotomized from the transcendental, is the filth in which humans have to pay for their sins.“

“… The church can be no more utopian, prophetic, or filled with hope Than are the ruling class to which it is Allied… Instead of stimulating the pilgrim, it invites him to stand still. Basically, it is a church that forbid itself the Easter it preaches.“

“Hence conscientization… Must be a critical attempt to reveal reality… Be related to political involvement… Result… The conscious action of the oppressed as exploited social class, struggling for liberation… The educator and the people together conscientize themselves, thanks to the dialectical movement that relates critical reflection on past action to the continuing struggle.”

“The sine qua non apprenticeship demands is that, first of all, they really experience their own Easter, that they die as a leader so has to be resurrected on the side of your breast, that they be born again with beans who are not allowed to be.”

“The recommendation that resulted from that conference, which was sponsored by a Pennsylvania organization called research for Better School RBS (a federally funded education laboratory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) have been submitted to the national Institute of education with whom RBS has a contract to research, develop and disseminate moral/citizenship education program… as to avoid public hostility.”

“Early in June 1976, 85 top level members of the educational lead and assortment of influential change agents met in an invitation, only conference in Philadelphia to draft recommendations on how to put moral/citizenship education (MCE) programs in every school in the country…“

“One of the great merits of the Chinese, cultural revolution was its rejection of the static, antidialectical, over conservative concepts of China’s history. Here there seems to be a permanent mobilization of people in the sense of consciously creating & creating society. In China, to be conscious is not a slogan or ready-made idea. To be conscious is a radical way of being, a way characteristic of humanity.”