They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen. - Paulo Freire

The participants begin to realize that if their analysis of the situation goes any deeper they will either have to divest themselves of their myths, or reaffirm them. Divesting themselves of and renouncing their myths represents, at that moment, an act of self-violence. On the other hand, to reaffirm those myths is to reveal themselves.

Our converts, on the other hand, truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the executors of the transformation.

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