Loving the World

Mural of Paolo Friere at the Facultad de Educación y Humanidades, Universidad del Bío-Bío.

“Because love is an act of courage—not fear—love is a commitment to other people.  No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is a commitment to their cause—the cause of liberation.  And this commitment, because it is loving, is dialogical…. Only by abolishing the situation of oppression is it possible to restore the love which that situation made impossible.  If I do not love the world, if I do not love life, if I do not love people, I cannot enter the dialogue.” -from Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paolo Friere, Brazilian educator and philosopher.

Express courageous love today.