Hope is active struggle rooted in human incompletion, not waiting

Evidence

Nor yet can dialogue exist without hope. Hope is rooted in men’s incompletion, from which they move out in constant search—a search which can be carried out only in communion with others. Hopelessness is a form of silence, of denying the world and fleeing from it. The dehumanization resulting from an unjust order is not a cause for despair but for hope, leading to the incessant pursuit of the humanity denied by injustice. Hope, however, does not consist in crossing one’s arms and waiting. As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 267

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines hope as militant, fight-sustaining — crucial for preventing the redesigned learning situation from collapsing into fatalistic passivity.
• XREF: connects to: Genuine hope rests on disrespect for entrenched, durable suffering, not on guarantees.; Powerless hope is the sole precondition for continuing to live — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 149; Hope has two opposites, anxiety and memory, which invert rather than negate it (+5 more)