Frantz Fanon

"Let us leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder him everywhere they find him."

"The colonized man will first manifest this aggression which has been deposited in his bones against his own people."

"The thing which has been colonized is no longer to be colonized."

"Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon."

"The zone where the natives live is not complementary to the zone inhabited by the settlers."

"The colonist wants the colonized to be a thing, an animal."

"We must leave our inferiority complex behind."

"The colonized is elevated above his inferiors through technology and weaponry."

"African socialism is a living reality, expressed in the millions of Africans practicing collectivity."

"Racialism and the difficulties and abnormalities which obstruct the course of affairs in the world."

"Suffering and pain are part of the native's daily bread."

"The colonial world is a compartmentalized world."

"Individuality must not therefore come to the fore."

"The colonist makes history and knows that he makes it."

"Resistance is the mark of the colonized's dignity."

"Each generation must, in relative opacity, discover its mission."

"Medicine and healing are political acts in a colonial context."

"The intellectual vocation is to serve the people."

"We must courageously accept this consequence: the liberation of the national bourgeoisie."

"Man is not merely a biological phenomenon, but a social phenomenon."

"The past has never tried to save the future."

"Technical knowledge alone is not sufficient."

"The nation does not exist in the program which is written for it."

"Colonized intellectuals who use the colonizer's language carry the seeds of their own oppression."

"Identity must be sought not in solitary introspection but in action."

"The colonized who reads European literature absorbs the oppressor's categories."

"To educate is to liberate."

"Spontaneity and improvisation characterize the fighting of the colonized."

"The pharmacist, the doctor, or the magistrate are not appointed to educate the people."

"We must break with our inferiority; we must proclaim that we are equal."