The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

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