Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

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

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.