“True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.”

“The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.”

“Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”

“It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.”

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.”

“The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.”

“No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?”

“The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”

“No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?”

“...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.”

“P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.”