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Transformation Is Only Valid If It Is Carried Out With The People, Not For Them. Liberation Is Like A Childbirth, And A Painful One. The Person Who Emerges Is A New Person: No Longer Either Oppressor Or Oppressed, But A Person In The Process Of Achieving Freedom. It Is Only The Oppressed Who, By Freeing Themselves, Can Free Their Oppressors.

Sometimes A Simple, Almost Insignificant Gesture On The Part Of A Teacher Can Have A Profound Formative Effect On The Life Of A Student.

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

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.

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.