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

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

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.