Inferiority complex Quote by James Baldwin

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white;…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of…

— Jane Sherron De Hart

Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local…

— Frantz Fanon

“Colonialism oppressed and subverted Africans and remade them as scavengers, pleaders, and servants”

— Paul Theroux

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Europeans had thought only of enriching themselves as the local population starved to death.58”

— Peter Frankopan

“inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a…

— Karen Armstrong

“European colonialism was like an aggressive virus, striving on the weak African immune system. Africans must unite or perish!!!”

— Thabiso Monkoe

“The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how…

— Alain Badiou

“Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The situation, therefore, in the colonial countries, is tragic,” Cesaire continued. “Wherever colonization is a fact the indigenous culture begins to rot. And, among…

— James Baldwin

“precisely because Africans were fitter in tropical climates than Europeans, they ended up as the slaves of European masters!”

— Yuval Noah Harari