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

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

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

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.