“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.”

“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...”

“After all, the task of the humanists is surely not that of pitting their slogans against the slogans of the oppressors, with the oppressed as the testing ground, "housing" the slogans of first one group and then the other. On the contrary, the task of the humanists is to see that the oppressed become aware of the fact that as dual beings, "housing" the oppressors within them­selves, they cannot be truly human.”

“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”

“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).”

“The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”