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.

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.

It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

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.

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

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