P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.

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

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.

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

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.

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

Be grateful when you have friends who care for you, it's a blessing to see nice happy people around us.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure.

Everything in Rome has its price.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.