Those Truly Committed To Liberation

Coherently Democratic Authority Carries The Conviction That True Discipline Does Not Exist In The Muteness Of Those Who Have Been Silenced But In The Stirrings Of Those Who Have Been Challenged, In The Doubt Of Those Who Have Been Prodded, And In The Hopes Of Those Who Have Been Awakened.

It's No Sin To Make A Critical Study Of Brazil's Reality. A Small Percentage Own Land. Most People Don't.

The Intellectual Activity Of Those Without Power Is Always Characterized As Non-intellectual.

The Educator Has The Duty Of Not Being Neutral.

Education As The Practice Of Freedom--as Opposed To Education As The Practice Of Domination--denies That Man Is Abstract, Isolated, Independent And Unattached To The World; It Also Denies That The World Exists As Reality Apart From People. Authentic Reflection Considers Neither Abstract Man Nor The World Without People, But People In Their Relations With The World. In These Relations Consciousness And World Are Simultaneous: Consciousness Neither Precedes The World Nor Follows It.