It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total resp… - Paulo Freire

The dialogical character of education as the practice of freedom does not begin when the teacher-student meets with the students-teachers in pedagogical situation, but rather when the former first asks herself or himself what she or he will dialogue with the latter about.

Scientific and humanist revolutionary leaders, on the other hand, cannot believe in the myth of the ignorance of the people.

Money is the measure of all things, and profit the primary goal. For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more—always more—even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have.