Frantz Fanon Quotes

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• Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being…
• Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate.…
• If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
• The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates…
• 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…
• I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to…
• For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.
• I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
• A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
• In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of…
• To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach…
• The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
• For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set…
• I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the…
• Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
• The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
• We revolt simply because, for many reasons, #‎ WeCantBreathe .
• Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.
• What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call…
• The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type…

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