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At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

— Paulo Freire

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

— John Ortberg

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

— Fay Weldon

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

— Harold Kushner

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.

— Martin Seligman

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

— Simone Weil

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

— Mike White

✗Opposing Perspectives

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

— Quentin Crisp

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

— Walter Kaufmann