Frantz Fanon

"Decolonization never takes place unnoticed, for it influences individuals and modifies them fundamentally."

"The national bourgeoisie in underdeveloped countries must be perpetually kept under surveillance."

"Landlessness is the primary form of colonial exploitation."

"The fight of the people constitutes the most powerful means of defending the nation."

"Violence is always therapeutic; it frees the native from his despair and gives him back his self-respect."

"The colonized man's inferiority is not an original fact but the result of the colonial situation."

"We do not need to prove that our people are prepared for independence."

"The machinery of production must be at the service of the people, not the reverse."

"The new national bourgeoisie must understand that wealth is not something to be squandered."

"Racism is not instinctive; it is taught and learned like any other discipline."

"The native fights with the same arms that the colonizer uses against him."

"Decolonization is the veritable creation of new men, but this creation takes two forms."

"The national leader must be vigilant against the temptations of national bourgeoisie."

"The colonial situation is a Manichaean situation, absolutely intransigent and uncompromising."

"When we speak of liberation, we cannot leave out the colonial context."

"The native intellectual who takes up arms to defend his nation's independence is often the same man who taught schoolchildren."

"A nation which re-educates its people cannot leave this enormous task to Christian missions."

"The peasantry is the revolutionary class in the colonized world."

"The intellectual dishonesty of the colonized intellectual consists in his inability to choose sides."

"National consciousness is not nationalism; it is the only thing that will give us an international dimension."

"The colonized masses will realize that poverty is not written in heaven; it is colonial policy."

"We must break with the colonizer's world, but not with the universal dimensions it contains."

"The national culture is the collective memory of the people; its treasure and its wealth."

"The colonialist bourgeoisie, when cornered, tries to maintain its domination by means of culturalism."

"Man is not merely a biological phenomenon; he is also a conscious being."

"The colonized need not wonder which route takes them to freedom; all routes lead to Rome."

"An occupied country is a sick body; you cannot act normally there."

"The psychiatrist in the colonial sphere is not primarily a healer of individuals but a guardian of the colonial regime."

"Nationalism, if it is to be progressive, must be open to the international."

"The bourgeoisie of the colonizing country is only interested in profiting from its colonies."