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What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

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The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to…

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The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it…

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“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this…

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One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

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Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become…

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Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

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Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people as a whole and based on the principle that man is the most precious of all possessions, will allow us to go forward more quickly and more harmoniously, and thus make impossible that caricature of…

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The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

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“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of a future national culture. In the sphere of psycho-affective equilibrium it is responsible for an important change in the native. Perhaps we haven't sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in…

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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

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Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.

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“To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is just this absence of wish, this lack of interest, this indifference, this automatic manner of classifying him, imprisoning him, primitivizing him, decivilizing him, that makes…

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“Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of “sisters of charity.” This help should be the ratification of…

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