It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors..

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense….

Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. H….

Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also a….

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system an….

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppresso….

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the wo….

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed..

This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive to the experien….

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

language is never neutral.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders..

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who r….

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..

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity..

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many o….

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation mo….

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

Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle..

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority..