Paulo Freire — "The educator has the duty of not being neutral. Because love is an act of courag…"

"It is exactly in these conditions—in the conditions of oppression—that the oppressed can come to understand the oppressors and their oppression."

"This is why a truly liberating pedagogy, the pedagogy of freedom, must be praxis."

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

"It is only when the oppressed are able to recognize the causes of their oppression that they can begin to change their situation."

"The pedagogy of the oppressed, animated by authentic, humanist (not humanitarian) generosity, presents itself as a pedagogy of man."