Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future. - Paulo Freire

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.