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To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time.

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From the introduction to The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

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Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

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p. 184
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In some places the metropolis makes do with paying a clique of feudal overlords; in others, it has fabricated a fake bourgeoisie of colonized subjects in a system of divide and rule; elsewhere, it has killed two birds with one stone: the colony is both settlement and exploitation.

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p. xlvi
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"Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it."

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9 months 3 weeks ago

This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man.

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For those who want 'to change life", 'to reinvent love,' God is nothing but a hindrance.

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p. 500
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In order to make himself thoroughly undesirable, he will speak.

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p. 463
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...and if you are common, you can dress up as a woman, show you behind or write poems: there's nothing offensive about a naked behind if it's everybody's; each person will be mirrored in it.

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