The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.

I hope at least that the following will endure: my trust in the people, and my faith in men and women, and in the creation of a world in which it will be easier to love

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.