To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.

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.

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.