How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

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

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings and consciousness as consciousness intent upon the world.