Frantz Fanon

"The colonized man is always proving to the colonizer that he is not beneath him."

"A national culture is not folklore, nor is it an abstract populism."

"The revolution is made not by the majority against the minority but by a minority against all."

"We must begin everything afresh from the perspective of the enslaved."

"The psychiatrist who is not concerned with the social context is merely a technician."

"Nationalism, if it is not democratic, if it is not open to all the anxieties of the people, will lead to fascism."

"The land belongs to those who work it with their hands."

"There is no trust. There are only the interests of the colonizer and the needs of the colonized."

"For the native, objectivity is always used against him."

"The colonizer only proves the other right in retreating geographically from the soil he has occupied."

"The national bourgeoisie lacks the means, the resources and, above all, the time to accomplish its historical mission."

"Culture is the memory of a people."

"The colonial situation is a Manichaean situation; it is impossible to get away from it."

"We must refuse to accept the present as definitive."

"The oppressed must liberate themselves; liberation is a praxis which unfolds over the whole length of time which conditions change."

"Humanism must be universalized; it can only exist in a national framework."

"The struggle for freedom is the struggle for the consciousness of self."

"Violence alone, violence committed by the people, violence organized and educated by its leaders, makes it possible."

"The colonized individual is a fatalist."

"Every colonized people finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation."

"The colonial authority is absolute and omnipresent."

"We must recognize the right of peoples to dispose of themselves."

"The intellectual heritage of the nation becomes a rather short exercise in restatement."

"The struggle will show if flesh and blood makes a good investment for violence."

"Psychiatry should help to set free the colonized."

"The colonized subject is ensnared in the old stories invented for him by the colonizer."

"We must invest new meanings in our night."

"The colonizer makes history; his life is an epic, an odyssey."

"The colonized makes counter-ethnography."

"Treason is a political act."