"The solution is not to 'integrate' the oppressed into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become 'beings for themselves.'"

"No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so."

"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."

"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…"