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

No reality transforms itself.

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

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

Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.