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Our socialization - One result is that our vision of possibilities for change is limited by our confinement int he roles to which we have been assigned.

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...people within role groups can assist other members of their own role group to recognize and eliminate those patterns of thought and behavior that originate in the internalized subordination or domination.

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Those people who bear the brunt of the oppression should not be required to also take responsibility for eliminating it.

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This does not mean that members of groups who have been socialized into roles of subordination should focus their attention outward on the dominant group, or that members of dominant groups should be focused on the subordinant group. Is to suggest that when the perspective of the other group can serve as the critical energy to move things forward, liberation will be hampered if we hold our thinking and perspectives back from each other.

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1. What are your reactions to this quote?
2. What does this mean to you personally?
3. How might this impact your work professionally?

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A liberatory consciousness enables humans to live outside the patterns of thought and behavior learned through the socialization process that helps to perpetuate oppressive systems.

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Systems do not perpetuate themselves; they are perpetuated by the actions of people who act automatically on the basis of their socialization.

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Those people who bear the brunt of the oppression should not be required to also take responsibility for eliminating it.

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A lib consciousness requires every individual to not only notice what is going on in the world, but to think about it and theorize about it – that is to get info and develop hi/sher own explanation for what is happening, why, and what needs to be done.

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The labeling of these four components in the development of a liberatory consciousness is meant to serve as reminders in our daily living that the development and practice of a liberatory consciousness is neither mysterious nor difficult, static nor fixed, or something that some people have and others do not. It is to be continually practiced event by event, each time we are faced with a situation in which oppression or internalized oppression is evident.

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