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• 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 that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, Writing

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

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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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Reality, Citizens, Mass

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

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• They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mean, Reform, Doe

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.79, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Class, Pay

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

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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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Men, Hands

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

  Frantz Fanon

  World, Idiot, Burden

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

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• Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

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  Believe, Zombie, Believe In Me

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Frantz Fanon

  Used

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• A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, World, Language

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

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• O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Body

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, White, People

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

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• 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 middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Thinking, Air

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.224, Pluto Press

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• To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

  Frantz Fanon

  Psychology, Culture, World

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• Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mastery, Language, Remarkable

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

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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 hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

  Frantz Fanon

  Hate, Lynching, Justice

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.53, Pluto Press

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• 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 of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.

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  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

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  Needs, Problem, Said

  Frantz Fanon (1969). “Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays”, p.19, Grove Press

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• 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 the white man's values.

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  Men, White Man, Supremacy

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

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• To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

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  Mean, Civilization, Support

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.17, Pluto Press

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• When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

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  Color, Dislike Me, Circles

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• Violence is man re-creating himself.

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  Men, Creating, Violence

  "Les Damnes de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth)". Book by Frantz Fanon (Chapter 1), 1963.

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• Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

  Frantz Fanon

  Essence, Culture, Deterioration

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

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• We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

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  Believe, Assuming, Individual

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.14, Grove Press

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• The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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  Men, White Man, Color

  Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.205, Grove Press

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• Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Country, Light

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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