"Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see a dance piece where the dancers danced in the first act and in the second showed the audience how to dance? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see a musical where in the first act the actors sang and in the second we all sang together?...This is...how artists should be—we should be creators and also teach the public how to be creators, how to make art, so that we may all use that art together."

“I believe in democracy, but in real democracy, not a phony democracy in which just powerful people can speak. For me, in a democracy everyone speaks.”

“To resist, it is not enough to say No – it is necessary to desire!”

“When we look beyond appearances, we see oppressors and oppressed people, in all societies, ethnic groups, genders, social classes and casts; we see an unfair and cruel world. We have to create another world because we know it is possible. But it is up to us to build this other world with our hands and by acting on the stage and in our own life.”

“We must all do theatre – to find out who we are, and to discover who we could become.”

“Cardboard Citizens - The UK's Theatre of the Oppressed Practitioners”

“Augusto Boal, Founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed, Dies at 78, Democracy Now!”