Frantz Fanon — "The oppressed will always believe the oppressor to be stronger than he."

"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."

"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted."

"The greatest danger that threatens humanity is the existence of a zone of nonbeing, a zone of nothingness."

"The well-known principle that all men are equal will be illustrated in the colonies from the moment that the colonized subject asserts he is the equal of the colonist."

"The colonized is a man who has been forced to live in a state of perpetual childhood, a state of perpetual dependence."