Frantz Fanon

(108 votes)   What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

Frantz Fanon
1925-1961, French Psychiatrist

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(49 votes)   When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Frantz Fanon
1925-1961, French Psychiatrist

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(35 votes)   I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

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(31 votes)   He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

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(30 votes)   Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

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(30 votes)   For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

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(28 votes)   However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

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(22 votes)   There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

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(19 votes)   Violence is man re-creating himself.

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