I recognized development as such a situation. When I read this it made me think of the
aid and charity on which so much of development depends as ‘false generosity’ that
constituted a way in which to reproduce oppression. As a result, I recognized my own
complicity in this process and wished to change it. The following passage, which I quote
at length from Freire (2000 [1970]), describes how those in a position of power can truly
side with the oppressed in their struggle for social justice: