Washing One's Hands Of The Conflict Between

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.

It Is Truly Difficult To Make A Democracy. Democracy, Like Arty Dream, Is Not Made With Spiritual Words But With Reflection And Practice. It Is Not What I Say That Says I Am A Democrat, That I Am Not Racist Or Machista But What I Do. What I Say Must Not Be Contradicted By What I Do. It Is What I Do That Bespeaks My Faithfulness Or Not To What I Say.

Teachers Who Do Not Take Their Own Education Seriously, Who Do Not Study, Who Make Little Effort To Keep Abreast Of Events Have No Moral Authority To Coordinate The Activities Of The Classroom.

The Oppressed Find In The Oppressors Their Model Of 'manhood.'

How Can The Oppressed, As Divided, Unauthentic Beings, Participate In Developing The Pedagogy Of Their Liberation?