Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.