The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.' - Paulo Freire

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Integration with one's context, as distinguished from adaptation, is a distinctively human activity. Integration results from the capacity to adapt oneself to reality plus the critical capacity to make choices and to transform that reality. To the extent that man loses his ability to make choices and is subjected to the choices of others, to the extent that his decisions are no longer his own because they result from external prescriptions, he is no longer integrated. Rather, he has adapted. He has "adjusted." Unpliant men, with a revolutionary spirit, are often termed "maladjusted."

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.