Liberation is a painful birth process of a new humanized being.

Evidence

Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one. The man or woman who emerges is a new person, viable only as the oppressor-oppressed contradiction is superseded by the humanization of all people. Or to put it another way, the solution of this contradiction is born in the labor which brings into the world this new being: no longer oppressor nor longer oppressed, but human in the process of achieving freedom. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 115

Categorization

• CANDY: The childbirth-of-liberation image is a striking, quotable way to hold the whole project in one metaphor.
• SEED: Essay angle: what does ‘facilitated birth’ of conscientização mean pedagogically — where is the midwife and where is the doctor?