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Frantz Fanon Quotes

What matters is not to know the world but to change it Picture Quote #1

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness Picture Quote #1

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing Picture Quote #1

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent Picture Quote #1

Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem Picture Quote #1

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well Picture Quote #1

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Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent Picture Quote #1

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white Picture Quote #1

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization Picture Quote #1

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon Picture Quote #1

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens Picture Quote #1

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture Picture Quote #1

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If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then that bridge ought not to be built Picture Quote #1

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things... And then I found I was an object in the midst of other objects Picture Quote #1

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary Picture Quote #1

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men Picture Quote #1

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the Earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo Picture Quote #1

There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it Picture Quote #1

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For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity Picture Quote #1

And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength Picture Quote #1

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps Picture Quote #1

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves Picture Quote #1

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves Picture Quote #1

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand Picture Quote #1

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Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of “sisters of charity. ” This help should be the ratification of a double realization: the realization by the colonized peoples that it is their due, and the realization by the capitalist powers that in fact they must pay Picture Quote #1

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be Picture Quote #1

The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested Picture Quote #1

In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action maintain contact with the native and advise him by means of rifle butts and napalm not to budge. It is obvious here that the agents of government speak the language of pure force Picture Quote #1

I speak of the Christian religion, and no one need be astonished. The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor. And as we know, in this matter many are called but few chosen Picture Quote #1

That famous dictatorship, whose supporters believe that it is called for by the historical process and consider it an indispensable prelude to the dawn of independence, in fact symbolizes the decision of the bourgeois caste to govern the underdeveloped country first with the help of the people, but soon against them Picture Quote #1

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What matters is not to know the world but to change it (Frantz Fanon Quotes) I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness (Frantz Fanon Quotes) The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing (Frantz Fanon Quotes) Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent (Frantz Fanon Quotes) Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem (Frantz Fanon Quotes) Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well (Frantz Fanon Quotes) Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent (Frantz Fanon Quotes) However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white (Frantz Fanon Quotes) I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization (Frantz Fanon Quotes) National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon (Frantz Fanon Quotes) To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens (Frantz Fanon Quotes) Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture (Frantz Fanon Quotes) If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then that bridge ought not to be built (Frantz Fanon Quotes) I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things... And then I found I was an object in the midst of other objects (Frantz Fanon Quotes) What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary (Frantz Fanon Quotes) When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men (Frantz Fanon Quotes) I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the Earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo (Frantz Fanon Quotes) There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it (Frantz Fanon Quotes) For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity (Frantz Fanon Quotes) And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength (Frantz Fanon Quotes) The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps (Frantz Fanon Quotes) The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother-country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves (Frantz Fanon Quotes) A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves (Frantz Fanon Quotes) Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand (Frantz Fanon Quotes) Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of “sisters of charity. ” This help should be the ratification of a double realization: the realization by the colonized peoples that it is their due, and the realization by the capitalist powers that in fact they must pay (Frantz Fanon Quotes) The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be (Frantz Fanon Quotes) The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested (Frantz Fanon Quotes) In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action maintain contact with the native and advise him by means of rifle butts and napalm not to budge. It is obvious here that the agents of government speak the language of pure force (Frantz Fanon Quotes) I speak of the Christian religion, and no one need be astonished. The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor. And as we know, in this matter many are called but few chosen (Frantz Fanon Quotes) That famous dictatorship, whose supporters believe that it is called for by the historical process and consider it an indispensable prelude to the dawn of independence, in fact symbolizes the decision of the bourgeois caste to govern the underdeveloped country first with the help of the people, but soon against them (Frantz Fanon Quotes)

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