Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“The thematics which have come from the people return to them--not as contents to be deposited, but as problems to be solved.”
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 3
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