I Am An Educator Who Thinks Globally.

But Almost Always, During The Initial Stage Of The Struggle, The Oppressed, Instead Of Striving For Liberation, Tend Themselves To Become Oppressors, Or Sub Oppressors. The Very Structure Of Their Thought Has Been Conditioned By The Contradiction Of The Concrete, Existential Situation By Which They Were Shaped. Their Ideal Is To Be Men; But For Them To Be Men Is To Be Oppressors

It Is Only The Oppressed Who, By Freeing Themselves, Can Free Their Oppressors.

I Have Never Said, As Is Sometimes Believed, Or Even Suggested That Lower-class Children Should Not Learn The So-called Educated Norm Of The Portuguese Language Of Brazil. What I Have Said Is That The Problems Of Language Always Involve Ideological Questions And, Along With Them, Questions Of Power.

In Order For This Struggle To Have Meaning, The Oppressed Must Not, In Seeking To Regain Their Humanity (which Is A Way To Create It), Become In Turn Oppressors Of The Oppressors, But Rather Restorers Of The Humanity Of Both

The More We Become Able To Become A Child Again, To Keep Ourselves Childlike, The More We Can Understand That Because We Love The World And We Are Open To Understanding, To Comprehension, That When We Kill The Child In Us, We Are No Longer.