"The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it."

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

"Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world."

"Problem-posing education, as a humanistic and liberating praxis, constantly serves that end. Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term…"

"The oppressed are not just individuals; they are a class, a collective subject of history."