Paulo Freire — "The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become opp…"

"The oppressed are not just individuals; they are a class, a collective subject of history."

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

"The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it."

"Liberation is a childbirth, and a painful one."

"Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it, is a distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human."