I cannot be a teacher without exposing who I am.

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.

language is never neutral

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

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