Dehumanization, Although A Concrete Historical Fact, Is

Human Existence Cannot Be Silent, Nor Can It Be Nourished By False Words, But Only By True Words, With Which People Transform The World. To Exist, Humanly, Is To Name The World, To Change It. Once Named, The World In Its Turn Reappears To The Namers As A Problem And Requires Of Them A New Naming. People Are Not Built In Silence, But In Word, In Work, In Action-reflection.

Language Is Never Neutral

No Matter How Much Someone May Irritate Me, I Have No Right To Puff Myself Up With My Own Self-importance So As To Declare That Person To Be Absolutely Incompetent, Assuming A Posture Of Disdain From My Own Position Of False Superiority.

With The Establishment Of A Relationship Of Oppression, Violence Has Already Begun. Never In History Has Violence Been Initiated By The Oppressed. How Could They Be The Initiators, If They Themselves Are The Result Of Violence? How Could They Be The Sponsors Of Something Objective Whose Objective Inauguration Called Forth Their Existence As Oppressed? There Would Be No Oppressed Had There Been No Prior Of Violence To Establish Their Subjugation.

One Cannot Expect Positive Results From An Educational Or Political Action Program Which Fails To Respect The Particular View Of The World Held By The People. Such A Program Constitutes Cultural Invasion, Good Intentions Notwithstanding.