Authentic witness rests on consistency, boldness, radicalization, love, and faith

Evidence

The essential elements of witness which do not vary historically include: consistency between words and actions; boldness which urges the witnesses to confront existence as a permanent risk; radicalization (not sectarianism) leading both the witnesses and the ones receiving that witness to increasing action; courage to love (which, far from being accommodation to an unjust world, is rather the transformation of that world in behalf of the increasing liberation of humankind); and faith in the people, since it is to them that witness is made—although witness to the people, because of their dialectical relations with the dominant elites, also affects the latter (who respond to that witness in their customary way). — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 567

Categorization

• DEFINE: Enumerates the fixed criteria for authentic witness — a checklist the reader can use to test whether their own facilitation practice is genuinely dialogical.
• XREF: connects to: An adversary’s involuntary praise is the strongest possible witness to truth