Frantz Fanon

“All forms of exploitation resemble one another. They all seek the source of their necessity in some edict of a Biblical nature. All forms of exploitation are identical because all of them are applied against the same "object": man.”

“Every one of my acts commits me as a man. Every one of my silences, every one of my cowardices reveals me as a man.”

“Yes, European civilization and its best representatives are responsible for colonial racism.”

“I said just above that South Africa has a racist structure. Now I shall go farther and say that Europe has a racist structure.”

“The landing of the white man on Madagascar inflicted injury without measure. The consequences of that irruption of Europeans onto Madagascar were not psychological alone, since, as every authority has observed, there are inner relationships between consciousness and the social context.”

“Dirty nigger!" or simply "Look! A Negro!”

“I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.”

“The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.”

“From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.”

“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.”

“When the native hears a speech about Western culture he pulls out his knife—or at least he makes sure it is within reach. The violence with which the supremacy of white values is affirmed and the aggressiveness which has permeated the victory of these values over the ways of life and of thought of the native mean that, in revenge, the native laughs in mockery when Western values are mentioned in front of him.”

“The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.”