Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Love is an act of courage.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

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

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or peoples) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.