Freedom is won by constant pursuit, not granted or gifted.

Evidence

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. 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. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 109

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines freedom as active conquest rather than possession or ideal — a criterion for redesigning the learning situation.
• XREF: connects to: Freedom exists only as engaged, self-choosing action, never as undetermined potential — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1145; Freedom means being perpetually on trial, awaiting ratification of one’s past. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1191