"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice…"

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

"The act of rebellion against the oppressors, which is the historical task of the oppressed, is itself an act of love."

"The role of the revolutionary is not to 'save' the people, but to struggle with them for their liberation."

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