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.

In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

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

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged, in the doubt of those who have been prodded, and in the hopes of those who have been awakened.

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.