Paulo Freire — "The educator has the duty of not being neutral."

"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…"

"To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it."

"The oppressor is not able to understand that the oppressed, far from being purely 'emotional,' are, as the oppressed, involved in a concrete situation of oppression, and that their 'emotionality' is n…"

"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."

"The solution is not to 'integrate' the oppressed into the structure of oppression, but to transform that structure so that they can become 'beings for themselves.'"