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.
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.
War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.
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