...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.
Frantz FanonImperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
Frantz FanonThey realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.
Frantz FanonFor a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
Frantz FanonAnd it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.
Frantz Fanon