Frantz Fanon Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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

  Frantz Fanon

  Self, Fearless, Despair

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

• Violence is man re-creating himself.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Creating, Violence

  "Les Damnes de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth)". Book by Frantz Fanon (Chapter 1), 1963.

• 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 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

  Country, Class, Pay

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

• My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, 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.

  Frantz Fanon

  Self, African Tribes, Fearless

• For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

  Frantz Fanon

  Violence, Achilles, Heal

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