Concerning Violence Quotes

“I speak of the Christian religion, and no one need be astonished. The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor. And as we know, in this matter many are called but few chosen.”
― Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence

“Thus the native discovers that his life, his breath, his
beating heart are the same as those of the settler. He finds
out that the settler's skin is not of any more value than
a native's skin; and it must be said that this discovery
shakes the world in a very necessary manner. All the new,
revolutionary assurance of the native stems from it. For
if, in fact, my life is worth as much as the settler's, his
glance no longer shrivels me up nor freezes me, and his
voice no longer turns me into stone. I am no longer on
tenterhooks in his presence; in fact, I don't give a damn
for him. Not only does his presence no longer trouble me,
but I am already preparing such efficient ambushes for
him that soon there will be no way out but that of flight.”
― Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence