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

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them.

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

People in communion liberate each other.

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.