Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage