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you all cost too much money

The lawyer we were fighting against, he basically told us, “You all cost too much money.” But you want to keep us though, right? Are we not valuable to you? Don’t you think we should have proper health care? Don’t you want us to be healthy in your facility?

When someone gets hurt, they go, “Oh m…

Jacobin “They Don’t Understand the Value of Life” by Meagan Day
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we’re doing this for you inspo/anti-capitalism

So we went back in and showed them our proposal, and they said no. Doris stood up and pounded on the table and said, “Are we not worth it? We’re doing this for you. We’re cleaning and working for you. Are we not enough?” And then she just looked at everybody and said, “Come on, guys,” and we all st…

“They Don’t Understand the Value of Life” by Meagan Day
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a reality which seems all- powerful and overwhelming

[...] domination is itself objectively divisive. It maintains the oppressed I in a position of "adhesion" to a reality which seems allpowerful and overwhelming, and then alienates by presenting myste­ rious forces to explain this power. Part of the oppressed / is located in the reality to which i…

—p.146 Pedagogy of the Oppressed Chapter 4 (98) by Paulo Freire
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no one can unveil the world for another

[...] dialogical theory requires that the world be unveiled. No one can, however, unveil the world for another. Although one Subject may initiate the unveiling on behalf of others, the others must also become Subjects of this act. The adherence of the people is made possible by this unveiling of th…

—p.142 Chapter 4 (98) by Paulo Freire
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as if classes were fortuitous agglomerations of individuals

Class conflict is another concept which upsets the oppressors, since they do not wish to consider themselves an oppressive class. Unable to deny, try as they may, the existence of social classes, they preach the need for understanding and harmony between those who buy and those who are obliged to s…

—p.116 Chapter 4 (98) by Paulo Freire