The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

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.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the ball club at all.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.