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Psychiatrist

French psychiatrist and influential figure in the decolonization movement. Born in Martinique, Fanon was educated in France and worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria. His works, 'The Wretched of the Earth' and 'The Philosophy of the Revolution', have had a profound impact on postcolonial and liberation theories.

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“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.”

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Book:The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“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”

Self Force Violence Despair Complexes Fearless Self Respect Native Inaction Inferiority Cleansing Inferiority Complex

Book:Damnés de la terre

Source: Damnés de la terre

“In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.”

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Book:Damnés de la terre

Source: Damnés de la terre

“The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.”

Giving Realizing Native Colonialism

Book:The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“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.”

About the Author

Born: July 20, 1925
Died: December 6, 1961
Known for: Psychiatrist
Quotes: 93

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Black Skin, White MasksRelated source material

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