Quotes by Fanon, Frantz

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidifie >>

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak m >>

There is a point at which methods devour themselves. >>

Quotations about Equality

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- >>

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. >>

She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an >>

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

Fanon, Frantz