The culture of the dominant class hinders the affirmation of men as beings of decision. - Paulo Freire

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people—not to win them over.

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.

Founding itself upon love, humility, and faith, dialogue becomes a horizontal relationship of which mutual trust between the dialoguers is a logical consequence.