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

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

The future isn't something hidden in a corner.The future is something we build in the present.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

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