Frantz Fanon

"Hope is our greatest weapon."

"The people are the true makers of culture."

"Violence creates space for new expression."

"We demand the right to determine our own future."

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

"The colonized man is an angry man. His anger is explicit or implicit, and eats up all his energy."

"National bourgeoisies want to follow the Western path; we must not allow them to."

"Spontaneity without organization, and especially without political and military leadership, is like a ship without a rudder."

"Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex."

"The doctor does not understand the native mentality. So he remains a stranger in the land of the sick."

"A man who dies for his country has not lost his life; he has found it."

"The native intellectual must be challenged and questioned, otherwise he will seek refuge in the tribal fold."

"The struggle for freedom does not go backward."

"To leave this witch's cauldron we must decisively turn our backs on the Western pattern."

"The atmosphere of violence which characterizes the period of colonization turns into a de-colonization movement."

"Every native has among his relations and friends ex-servicemen, who are living on this meager pension in the midst of the most appalling poverty."

"The intellectual throws himself into politics with all the violence he can muster."

"We have not time to lose. If we wish our people to advance a step, then depths must be dug and mattocks seized."

"The European has not understood that his promiscuous relations have created a new situation in the world."

"Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched when the reality of Africa is taken into consideration."

"The demand for a national culture, for a people's culture, is the justest of demands."

"Medicine is not an art; it is a social activity."

"The caste system is the characteristic feature of the medieval period."

"Racism and its practices poison the mentality of the general population even when it is not visibly active."

"The middle-class intellectual must decide whose side he is on; he cannot be on both sides."

"Assimilation is a very pretty word which means the abandonment of particularity for universality."

"When we Africans speak of our culture, we are speaking of a whole tradition whose culmination is the appearance of the new man."

"The responsibility of the native man of culture is a responsibility vis-à-vis his nation first."

"The use of the word 'native' is sometimes depreciating and sometimes sympathetic."

"The conflict between bourgeoisie and proletariat is not present in the colonial sphere."