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“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...”
― Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts
― Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts
“I am sitting by the side of the road
The driver is changing the wheel.
I do not like the place I have come from.
I do not like the place I am going to.
Why do I watch the changing of the wheel
With impatience?”
―
The driver is changing the wheel.
I do not like the place I have come from.
I do not like the place I am going to.
Why do I watch the changing of the wheel
With impatience?”
―
“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.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
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