Acts of witness count as process, not success or failure at a fixed point

Evidence

Regarded as process, authentic witness which does not bear immediate fruit cannot be judged an absolute failure. The men who butchered Tiradentes could quarter his body, but they could not erase his witness. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 644

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Who counts as a witness determines whether slow violence registers as violence — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 49