Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: July 20, 1925 Death: December 6, 1961
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity..
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new fo….
To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of th….
The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates ….
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance.….
To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to t….
In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself..
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man….
Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery..
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation..
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultur….
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence canno….
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well..
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves..
What matters is not to know the world but to change it..
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand..
The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves..
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said,….
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder..
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built..
And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starvi….