The Wretched of the Earth

Quotes

1. The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

   p. 144

2. 

   The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anticolonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

   p. 55

3. 

   To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory.

   p. 6

4. 

   The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.

   p. 9

5. 

   The Church in the colonies is a white man's Church, a foreigners' Church. It does not call the colonized to the ways of God, but to the ways of the white man, to the ways of the master, the ways of the oppressor.

   p. 7

6. 

   As soon as they are born it is obvious to them that their cramped world, riddled with taboos, can only be challenged by out and out violence.

   p. 3

7. 

   The serf is essentially different from the knight, but a reference to divine right is needed to justify this difference in status.

   p. 5

8. 

   When the colonized hear a speech on Western culture they draw their machetes or at least check to see they are close to hand. The supremacy of white values is stated with such violence, the victorious confrontation of these values with the lifestyle and beliefs of the colonized is so impregnated with aggressiveness, that as a counter measure the colonized rightly make a mockery of them whenever they are mentioned.

   p. 8

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