A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
Frantz FanonRead
I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of awareness and recognition of individual consciousness and perspectives.
Frantz Fanon highlights the need for collective acknowledgment of diverse consciousnesses. By inviting the world to recognize this 'open door,' he advocates for a deeper understanding and appreciation of individual experiences and identities, promoting unity in diversity and the empowerment of marginalized voices.
In practice
In a speech about social justice, one might say, 'As Frantz Fanon said, I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness.'
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
When we revolt itβs not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.
Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.
The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.
Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.
Violence is man re-creating himself.
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.
Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
The greatest good that can come to anyone is forming within them an absolute certainty of themselves, and of their relationship to the Universe, forever removing the sense of heaven as being outside of them.
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