Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

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

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

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.

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

His changes are true, And oh for a reason.His work is eternal, And arrives in due season.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

I love 'Breaking Bad.' I think that's my favorite show.

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.