The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.

The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.

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

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.