The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.
Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.
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.
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
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.