What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

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

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.