Trust between dialoguers requires words to coincide with actions

Evidence

Trust is contingent on the evidence which one party provides the others of his true, concrete intentions; it cannot exist if that party’s words do not coincide with their actions. To say one thing and do another—to take one’s own word lightly—cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 266

Categorization

• SHARE: A sharp, quotable test for institutional or personal integrity — worth sending to someone who works on pedagogy or organizational trust.
• XREF: Parallels the diamond-bourse finding that reputation only works when conduct matches declared commitments. — connects to: Transactional speech values truth only by whether it advances the speaker’s goals — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 342