Liberation is a mutual process, not a gift or self-achievement

Evidence

The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed; the contradiction between the oppressors and the oppressed, and how it is overcome; oppression and the oppressors; oppression and the oppressed; liberation: not a gift, not a self-achievement, but a mutual process. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 4

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes liberation as inherently relational — neither given by the oppressor nor won alone by the oppressed.
• XREF: connects to: Beauvoir’s ‘abandon’ means mutual giving, not mindless self-loss. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 137; Humans can only create conditions for nature’s self-liberation, not liberate it. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1032