It Would Be A Contradiction In Terms

Some May Think That To Affirm Dialogue—the Encounter Of Women And Men In The World In Order To Transform The World—is Naively And Subjectively Idealistic. There Is Nothing, However, More Real Or Concrete Than People In The World And With The World, Than Humans With Other Humans.

Every Relationship Of Domination, Of Exploitation, Of Oppression Is By Definition Violent, Whether Or Not The Violence Is Expressed By Drastic Means. In Such A Relationship, Dominator And Dominated Alike Are Reduced To Things- The Former Dehumanized By An Excess Of Power, The Latter By A Lack Of It. And Things Cannot Love.

It Is Essential For The Oppressed To Realize That When They Accept The Struggle For Humanization They Also Accept, From That Moment, Their Total Responsibility For The Struggle.

In Order For The Oppressed To Be Able To Wage The Struggle For Their Liberation, They Must Perceive The Reality Of Oppression Not As A Closed World From Which There Is No Exit , But As A Limiting Situation Which They Can Transform.

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.