Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his humanity.
— Jean-Paul Sartre Modern

Existentialism

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Preface to Frantz Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth'

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1961

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Controversial

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