Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them.

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.

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

some may think that to affirm dialogue—the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the world—is naively and subjectively idealistic. there is nothing, however, more real or concrete than people in the world and with the world, than humans with other humans.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

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

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.