True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

Freire became familiar with poverty and hunger during the Great Depression of the 1930s. When the PT prevailed in the municipal elections in 1988 Freire was appointed Secretary of Education for São Paulo. The Conference networks a wide variety of people with interests in Freire and Augusto Boal—liberatory education and theatre community organizing community-based analysis TIE race/gender/class/sexual orientation/geography analysis performance/performance art comparative education models etc.

D (pron. He is best known for his influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed which is considered one of the foundation texts of the critical pedagogy movement.