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.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

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

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

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.