And this from
the book I am reading:
. . . sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made them so. In order for this struggle to have meaning, the opressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn opressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.
This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their opressors as well. The oppressors, who oppress, exploit and rape by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves. Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.
