Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.