"The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it."

"The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves."

"The greatest tragedy of man is that he is born for freedom, but lives in chains."

"The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors."

"This is why a truly liberating pedagogy, the pedagogy of freedom, must be praxis."