Catholic Socialists

"Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world."

"They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen."

"The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors."

"A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle."

"Our converts, on the other hand, truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the executors of the transformation."

"Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation."

"For them, having more is an inalienable right."

"Money is the measure of all things, and profit the primary goal. For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more—always more—even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have."

"The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed."

"It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education."

"A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver."

"True solidarity is found only in the plenitude of this act of love, and in its existentiality, in its praxis."

"Discovering himself to be an oppressor may cause considerable anguish, but it does not necessarily lead to solidarity with the oppressed."

"Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one."