"One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is the fatalistic perception of reality."

"Authentic education is not carried on by 'A' for 'B' or by 'A' about 'B,' but rather by 'A' with 'B,' mediated by the world—a world which impresses and challenges both parties, giving rise to views an…"

"The oppressor is not able to understand that the oppressed, far from being purely 'emotional,' are, as the oppressed, involved in a concrete situation of oppression, and that their 'emotionality' is n…"

"Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion."

"The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world…"