"No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are."

"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know."

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

"It is only when the oppressed are able to recognize the causes of their oppression that they can begin to change their situation."

"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…"