To speak a true word is to transform the world.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

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.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

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

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.