Frantz Fanon

"The colonized learns that patience is necessary only if one does not have a club."

"We must build anew and not attempt to preserve anything of the old Algeria."

"National culture in the underdeveloped countries should therefore take modern forms and body forth the aspirations of the people."

"Violence is cleansing; it frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction."

"The native finds his reason for existence and his humanity in this decision to drive out the colonizer."

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

"The colonial world is a hostile world, but it is not a hopeless world."

"Colonialism is a whole structure which must be destroyed from bottom to top."

"The native in his struggle for national freedom necessarily refers to the past."

"Culture cannot consist merely of a collection of museums."

"Independence is a political issue; it becomes a democratic demand."

"The colonized wears the uniform and takes up the colonizer's weapons."

"Nationalism is a stage in the development of consciousness."

"The plunge into a fraternal abyss of a people is a way of learning in the darkness."

"We cannot say that the said reason is a world reason."

"Each generation must discover its mission and fulfill it."

"The colonized individual who is convinced that this is the only language the colonizer understands will naturally use it."

"For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity, we ought to decide to turn a new page."

"Decolonization transforms spectators into actors."