"Hopelessness," Paulo Freire wrote, "is a form of silence, of denying the world and feeling from it. [But] the dehumanization resulting from an unjust order is not a cause for despair but for hope, leading to the incessant pursuit of the humanity which is denied by injustice" (Pedagogy, 64).

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 1230