"The object of dialogue is not to conquer but to clarify, to make explicit, to make visible the implicit."

"Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects which must be saved from a burning building - it is to make them the pa…"

"The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption."

"The pedagogy of the oppressed, animated by authentic, humanist (not humanitarian) generosity, presents itself as a pedagogy of man."

"Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it, is a distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human."