Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful an… - Paulo Freire

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (September 19, 1921 – May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and theorist of critical pedagogy.

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