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

"Man's ontological vocation is to be a subject who acts upon and transforms his world, and in so doing moves toward ever new possibilities of fuller and richer life individually and collectively."

"The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders."

"If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed."