Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.