"Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift."

"The educator must be a kind of gardener, cultivating the seeds of critical consciousness."

"There's no such thing as neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom."

"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice…"

"The act of rebellion against the oppressors, which is the historical task of the oppressed, is itself an act of love."