This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while being taught also teach. They become jointly responsible for a process in which all grow.

Education is suffering from narration sickness.