"The rightist sectarian, whom I have previously termed a 'born sectarian,' wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time, and thus to domesticate men and women. The leftist sectarian goes totally astray when he or she attempts to interpret reality and history dialectically, and falls into essentially fatalistic positions. The rightist sectarian differs from his or her leftist counterpart in that the former attempts to domesticate the present so that he or she hopes that the future will reproduce this domesticated present, while the latter considers the future established, a kind of inevitable fate, fortune or destiny. For the rightist sectarian, today linked to the past is something given and immutable. For the leftist sectarian, tomorrow as decreed beforehand is inexorably preordained. This rightist and this leftist are both reactionary, because starting from their respectively false views of history, both develop forms of action that negate freedom. The fact that one imagines a well-behaved present and the other a predetermined future does not mean that they therefore fold their arms and become spectators, the former expecting that the present will continue, the latter waiting for the already known future to come to pass. On the contrary, closing themselves into circles of certainty from which they cannot escape, these individuals make their own truth. It is not the truth of men and women who struggle to build the future running the risks involved in this very construction, nor is it the truth of men and women who fight side by side and learn together how to build this future, which is not something given to be received by people, but is rather something to be created by them. Both types of sectarian, treating history in an equally proprietary fashion, end up without the people, which is another way of being against them."

--Paulo Freire, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"