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

"Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is a commitment to their cause—the cause of liberation."

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

"One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is the fatalistic perception of reality."