Whoever Teaches Learns In The Act Of

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.

There Is No True Word That Is Not At The Same Time A Praxis. Thus, To Speak A True Word Is To Transform The World.

Those Truly Committed To Liberation Must Reject The Banking Concept In Its Entirety, Adopting Instead A Concept Of Women And Men As Conscious Beings And Consciousness As Consciousness Intent Upon The World.

No One Can Learn Tolerance In A Climate Of Irresponsibility, Which Does Not Produce Democracy. The Act Of Tolerating Requires A Climate In Which Limits May Be Established, In Which There Are Principles To Be Respected. That Is Why Tolerance Is Not Coexistence With The Intolerable. Under An Authoritarian Regime, In Which Authority Is Abused, Or A Permissive One, In Which Freedom Is Not Limited, One Can Hardly Learn Tolerance. Tolerance Requires Respect, Discipline, And Ethics.

The Revolutionary's Role Is To Liberate, And To Be Liberated, With The People--not To Win Them Over.