The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust. - Paulo Freire

The oppressor, who is himself dehumanized because he dehumanizes others, is unable to lead this struggle.

Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo.

The integrated person is person as Subject. In contrast, the adaptive person is person as object, adaptation representing at most a weak form of self-defense. If man is incapable of changing reality, he adjusts himself instead. Adaptation is behavior characteristic of the animal sphere; exhibited by man, it is symptomatic of his dehumanization.