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

"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."

"Without this love, dialogue is at best a horizontal relationship of two 'I's' who, however, have no more than a superficial, verbal encounter."

"The oppressed know that they are oppressed, but they do not know the causes of their oppression."

"The object of dialogue is not to conquer but to clarify, to make explicit, to make visible the implicit."

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