Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

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

It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

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

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.