It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.