# Quote — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

> 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.

- Author: [Frantz Fanon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon.md)
- Book: [The Wretched of the Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth.md)
- Page: 7
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## More from this book

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

p. 144 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth/the-living-expression.md)

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth/the-basic-confrontation.md)

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth/to-destroy-the.md)