"The more accurately men grasp true causality, the more critical their understanding becomes."

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

"The capacity to reflect critically on reality and to act on it to transform it."

"Dialogue is a horizontal relationship of which mutual trust is a natural consequence."

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