Language Is Never Neutral

The Parent-child Relationship In The Home Usually Reflects The Objective Cultural Conditions Of The Surrounding Social Structure. If The Conditions Which Penetrate The Home Are Authoritarian, Rigid, And Dominating, The Home Will Increase The Climate Of Oppression. As These Authoritarian Relations Between Parents And Children Intensify, Children In Their Infancy Increasingly Internalize The Paternal Authority.

The Oppressors Develop A Series Of Methods Precluding Any Presentation Of The World As A Problem And Showing It Rather As A Fixed Entity, As Something Given--something To Which People, As Mere Spectators, Must Adapt.

No One Can Be Authentically Human While He Prevents Others From Being So.

Freedom Is Acquired By Conquest, Not By Gift. It Must Be Pursued Constantly And Responsibly. Freedom Is Not An Ideal Located Outside Of Man; Nor Is It An Idea Which Becomes Myth. It Is Rather The Indispensable Condition For The Quest For Human Completion.

Individuals Who Were Submerged In Reality, Merely Feeling Their Needs, Emerge From Reality And Perceive The Causes Of Their Needs.