It is necessary to trust in the oppressed and in their ability to reason. - Paulo Freire

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

One might say they failed to perceive the untested feasibility lying beyond the limit-situations which engendered their needs.

For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in a revolution. Whether one calls this correct thinking 'revolutionary consciousness' or 'class consciousness,' it is an indispensable precondition of revolution. The dominant elites are so well aware of this fact that they instinctively use all means, including physical violence, to keep people from thinking.