Frantz Fanon Quotes

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• Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

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  Fruit, Wealth, Results

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• 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 masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.

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  Mean, Responsibility, Men

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

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  Faith, Atheist, Strong

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• When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

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  Culture, Breathe, Reason

  "The Wretched of the Earth". Book by Frantz Fanon, 1961.

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• Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

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  Generations, Missions, Betray

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

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  Land, Mind, Germs

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• Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

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  Self, Fearless, Despair

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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

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  What Matters, World, Social Justice

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• I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

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  Song, Heart, Intelligent

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.27, Grove Press

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• 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 cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

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  Country, Mother, People

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

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• The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

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  Believe, Worst, Always Believe

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• 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.

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  Bridges, Justice, Diversity

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

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  Party, Government, People

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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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 be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.

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  Struggle, Class, People

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

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  Creating, World

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.229, Pluto Press

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• He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

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  Reluctant

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.218, Pluto Press

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• The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

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  Men, White Man, Inferiority

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.60, Pluto Press

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• National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

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  People, Restoration, Renaissance

  The Wretched of the Earth "Concerning Violence" (1961) (translation by Constance Farrington)

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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 address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

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  Block, What Matters, Issues

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

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  People, Want, Conditions

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

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  Land, People, Essentials

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

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  Reality, Citizens, Mass

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• ...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

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  World, Idiot, Burden

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.9, Pluto Press

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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 society where all economic and political power is held in the hands of a few who regard the nation as a whole with scorn and contempt.

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  Country, Men, Hands

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• And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

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  Country, Class, Pay

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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