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

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

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

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.