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“People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

“Our old teachers, our neighbors, our ex-girlfriends, even some of our mothers, I think, began to believe we were without hope. And if you had been with us then, you might have said the same thing. You might have said that we were lost young men too, without goals or courage or aim.
But God, our hopes were high, our visions were glorious and moving. I bet if you could have stepped inside of our squirrelly heads for one minute and seen the impossible futures we were already imagining, well, then your heart would break. You'd weep.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

“We almost killed ourselves with rage. We would grow up trampling over things, tearing things down, and people would look at us and wonder why we had such violence in our hearts.”
― Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon