It Is Not Suprising That

The Behavior Of The Oppressed Is A Prescribed Behavior, Following As It Does The Guidelines Of The Oppressor.

Even Revolution, Which Transforms A Concrete Situation Of Oppression By Establishing The Process Of Liberation, Must Confront This Phenomenon. Many Of The Oppressed Who Directly Or Indirectly Participate In Revolution Intend - Conditioned By The Myths Of The Old Order - To Make It Their Private Revolution. The Shadow Of Their Former Oppressor Is Still Cast Over Them.

Because Love Is An Act Of Courage, Not Of Fear, Love Is A Commitment To Others. No Matter Where The Oppressed Are Found, The Act Of Love Is Commitment To Their Cause--the Cause Of Liberation.

But Almost Always, During The Initial Stage Of The Struggle, The Oppressed, Instead Of Striving For Liberation, Tend Themselves To Become Oppressors, Or Sub Oppressors. The Very Structure Of Their Thought Has Been Conditioned By The Contradiction Of The Concrete, Existential Situation By Which They Were Shaped. Their Ideal Is To Be Men; But For Them To Be Men Is To Be Oppressors

Every Society Needs To Examine Itself In Relation To Other Societies.