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Transgress old boundaries, and there will be guilt.
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The list for his urban education course includes the bible of the critical pedagogy movement, Brazilian Marxist Paolo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"; two books by Mr. Ayers himself; and "Teaching to Transgress" by bell hooks (lower case), the radical black feminist writer.
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My experience was much like most of the blacks I know of that period. bell hooks, in her book Teaching to Transgress, speaks to this point eloquently when she talks about the black women teachers she had in the segregated schools of Kentucky, where she was initially educated.
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HOOKS: Gee, that's hard to say because they've all -- I mean, they've all been doing so well, particularly the last few books -- "Teaching To Transgress," which is on teaching -- my books are very eclectic.
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Transgress the tradition of the elders, The word elders means, literally, old men.
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There is another law which reaches even into the lawless North Woods and which says, "Transgress against me and not another but yourself shall shape your punishment."
Wolf Breed Jackson Gregory 1912
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And we held over them the mountain24 at their compact, and said to them, Enter ye the door adoring; and we said to them, Transgress not on the Sabbath day, and we took from them a rigid compact.
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And we held over them the mountain at their compact, and said to them, “Enter ye the door adoring,” and we said to them, “Transgress not on the Sabbath day,” and we took from them a rigid compact.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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P: And We caused the Mount to tower above them at (the taking of) their covenant: and We bade them: Enter the gate, prostrate! and We bode them: Transgress not the Sabbath! and We took from them a firm covenant.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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If then any one transgresses the prohibition against you, Transgress ye likewise against him.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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