Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

language is never neutral

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they must adapt to the precepts which have ben set from above. One of these precepts is not to think.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.