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Just like their counterparts in private organizations, public officials spend most of their time making marginal choices among policies, most of which are likely to have mixed moral results, and most of which are likely to bring only incremental change. Officials compromise more than they agonize.
Political Ethics and Public Office
Dennis F. Thompson
For the truly humanist educator and the authentic revolutionary, the object of action is the reality to be transformed by them together with other people—not other men and women themselves.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo (Introduction), Myra Bergman Ramos (Translator)
We become so accustomed to you, we no longer look up when your shadow falls over the book we are reading and makes it glow.