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

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

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

In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.

The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

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