For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

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

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged, in the doubt of those who have been prodded, and in the hopes of those who have been awakened.

To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.