Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

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.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.