Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.