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P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.

The Passage of Power

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

The Poetics of Space

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

The Queen of the Tearling

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

After work, to unwind, I stand in the yard and act like a windmill. Plus, I never know when love will blow my way.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Right now is the youngest I’ll ever be, so I suppose I’d better act immature while I still can.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

To take another person’s life for personal gain is the most selfish act imaginable. Especially when that other person is your clone.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I think trees should bloom earlier in the spring. They act like they are on a schedule. It’s not like they have anywhere to go.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

He has one of the worst personalities. Actually, you can’t call it a personality, since he acts more like an animal than a person.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

Thirteen Reasons Why

We can say that wisdom causes us to know, while understanding enables us to act.

Understanding: All Success Is Attained by It

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Vanishing Acts

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

Vanishing Acts

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

Vanishing Acts

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

Vanishing Acts

Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.

Vanishing Acts

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Vanishing Acts

A true test of someone’s love is how they act when they’re stressed and not how much they love you when everything’s goin’ good.

Warriors of the Cross

Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation.

The Waterfall Concept