As the oppressor minority subordinates and dominates the majority, it must divide it and keep it divided in order to remain in power. - Paulo Freire

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.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

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