Albert Memmi

“To be sure, the church has greatly assisted the colonialist; backing his ventures, helping his conscience, contributing to the acceptance of colonization…

— Albert Memmi

“Colonized painting, for instance, is balanced between poles. From excessive submission to Europe resulting in depersonalization, it passes to such a violent…

— Albert Memmi

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to…

— Albert Memmi

“Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in…

— Albert Memmi

“Every colonial nation carries carries the seeds of a fascist temptation in its bossom. What is fascism if not a regime of…

— Albert Memmi

“Nothing could better justify the colonizer's privileged position than industry, and nothing could better justify tge colonised 's destitution than his laziness.…

— Albert Memmi

“All efforts of the colonialist are directed toward maintaining thsi social immobility, and racism is the surest weapon this aim. Racism appears…

— Albert Memmi

“The colonialst as the custodian of the values of civilization and history, he accomplishes a mission; he has the immense merit of…

— Albert Memmi

“Colonial racism is built from three major ideological components: One, the gulf between the culture of the colonialist and the colonized: two,…

— Albert Memmi

“For it is not without cause that one needs the police and the army to earn one's living or force and injustice…

— Albert Memmi

“It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual…

— Albert Memmi

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms,…

— Albert Memmi

“The colonialist's existence is so closely aligned with that of the colonized that he will never be able to overcome the argument…

— Albert Memmi

“The ' colonized do not know how to breath', the 'people here do not know how walk; they make little steps which…

— Albert Memmi

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind…

— Albert Memmi

I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

— Albert Memmi

“Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition condemns terrorism and political assassination. When…

— Albert Memmi