

“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth

“For isn't it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime?”
― A Small Place
― A Small Place

“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer breathe”
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“Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberté de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du désespoir.”
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“And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of despair… And above all my body as well as my soul, beware of folding your arms in the sterile attitude of spectator, for life is not a spectacle, for a sea of pain is not a proscenium.”
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
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