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In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presen...

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Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the wa...

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The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a ju...

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The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunde...

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It is true that if care is taken to use only a language that it's understood by graduates in law and...

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Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light t...

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Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the othe...

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Today everyone on our side knows that criminality is not the result of the Algerian's congenital nat...

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The wealth of the imperial countries is our wealth too. On the universal plane this affirmation, you...

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Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the co...

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At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of th...

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I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

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

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well th...

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As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But th...

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To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I wil...

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One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for...

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Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that ...

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The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, pr...

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Frantz Fanon

Psychiatrist

Born: 1925-07-20

Died: 1961-12-06

Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionist and author from Martinique. He was influential in the field of post-colonial studies and was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.More