Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

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.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.