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“We see the overall attitude of rejection of the values of the occupier, even if these values objectively be worth choosing. It is because they fail to grasp this intellectual reality, this characteristic feature, that the colonisers rage at always ‘doing them good in spite of themselves.’ Colonialism wants everything to come from it. But the dominant psychological feature of the colonised is to withdraw”

“Nations fall, armies collapse, businesses close, colonialists flee, a city destroyed by bombardment. But the masses go on living; they tenaciously recreate themselves, bury their dead and go forward.”

“But the great value of Fanon’s description of the conduct of the masses is in underlining the importance of their inner life, their private discussions, their resilience, their seemingly indirect actions. All this exists among all the peoples of the world. It is on this deep level that the future - which will later on seem to burst suddenly and without warning into bloom - is being prepared.”

“Instead of pitying us and being horrified by the atrocities of imperialism, better fight against it in your own country as we do in ours”

“The essence of revolution is not the struggle for bread; it is the struggle for human dignity.”