Revolutionary leaders gain authenticity only by dying to be reborn with the oppressed.

Evidence

In the process of oppression the elites subsist on the “living death” of the oppressed and find their authentication in the vertical relationship between themselves and the latter; in the revolutionary process there is only one way for the emerging leaders to achieve authenticity: they must “die,” in order to be reborn through and with the oppressed. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 431