The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.

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

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.