"The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom."

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

"Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion."

"The pedagogy of the oppressed, as a humanist and liberatory pedagogy, has two distinct stages. In the first, the oppressed unveil the world of oppression and through the praxis transform it. In the se…"

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