Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed.
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.
No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.
Reading is not walking on the words; it’s grasping the soul of them.
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
