‘“Who is a father here this evening?”…all raised their hands…[i] picked one of them and asked him,
“How many children do you have?”
“Three.”
“Would you be willing to sacrifice two of them, and make them suffer so that the other one could go to school and have a good life, in Recife?...”
“No!”
“Well, if you,… a person of flesh and bones, could not commit an injustice like that---how could God commit it?”
A scilence… Then:
“No, God isn’t the cause of all this. It’s the boss!”’
--Freire (1994), p. 48.; Hardcastle, 2004.
I wonder… does the world need a social revolution?
Painting by Goya.
ReplyDeleteNapoleon occupied Spain in 1808, a lot of Spaniards, including the Romanticist Goya, hoped that the French would bring in a number of liberal reforms that they felt their country was sorely in need of. Instead the French were barbaric, and the Spanish resisted their brutality with an equally vicious resistance movement. After this Goya, now very bitter at the whole experience focused his work on what he perceived to be political tyranny. This piece, created in 1814 is called The third of May, 1808.