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

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

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

language is never neutral