Frantz Fanon

"Social change comes through confrontation, not conversation."

"The colonized man finds his freedom in and through violence."

"National culture is the collective memory of a people."

"True decolonization is the creation of new men."

"The middle class that has come to power uses its class aggressiveness to mask its fundamental neo-colonial dependence."

"A national culture under colonial domination is a contested culture whose destruction is attempted systematically."

"Healing is inseparable from the liberation of the colonized."

"We reject all humiliation and all contempt, whatever the cost."

"The indigenous population does not touch bread, meat, or wine."

"Colonial exploitation was total, occupying all aspects of existence."

"The psychiatrist who hides his feelings about colonialism practices pseudo-medicine."

"A friend of the people must participate in this struggle."

"Individualism is the luxury of the colonizer."

"The colonial doctor exists within a profoundly ambiguous context."

"Colonization adjusts the discovery to the needs of a new period."

"Without a national culture there is no salvation and no proof of a nation's existence."

"The natives see that their intermediate position has been stabilized."

"Mutual recognition is the foundation of human dignity."

"The colonized live in a world cut in two."

"Man is human on condition that he wants to be human."

"Existence is a permanent struggle against these forces that would reduce us to silence."

"The colonizer's superior technology masks his fundamental barbarity."

"Our of this conflict, new nations must be born."

"Collective work and collective payment should lead to collective prosperity."

"The psychic instability of the colonized is the direct result of the violence inherent to the colonial situation."

"If we want to answer the question quite simply: where should our efforts be directed?, we reply with the whole of our beings: toward the future."

"Nationalism, if we do not make careful distinctions, is a toxic thing."

"Fundamentally, everything in the colony is a contest."

"True freedom consists of being the master of one's own actions."

"Patience is not a passive virtue but an active form of resistance."