With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. Ho….

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning..

Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true ….

[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individua….

I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portugue….

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society..

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as conscious beings ….

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, ….

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and t….

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are op….