No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.