Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

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

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.