Frantz Fanon: 20 July, 1925 – 6 December, 1961
Quotes from Frantz Fanon
Direct Quotes
- He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.
- We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.
- Each generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it.
- Land will bring bread and, above all, dignity.
- The issue which blocks the horizon is the need for a redistribution of wealth.
- What an idealist, people will say. Not at all: It is just that the others are scum.
- I believe in love.
- One should not lose sight of the real.
- We must refuse to accept the present as definitive.
- I am in solidarity with every victory of the human spirit.
- I find myself in a world in which I am summoned into battle.
- Recognise the open door of every consciousness.
- We must not amputate reality.
- A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.
- Optimism in Africa is a result of the revolutionary action of Africans.
- To put Africa in motion.
- Quotes Changed to Make Them More Fully Human
- The major, basic problem is restoring all woman and men to their proper place.
- (Wo)man is motion towards the world.
- Make me always a (wo)man who questions!
- Every one of my acts commits me as a (wo)man.
- Educate (wo)man to be actional.
- It is the destiny of (wo)man to be set free.
- Create a prospect that is human because conscious and sovereign (wo)men dwell therein.
- Slightly Edited Quotes to Make Slogans
- This Africa to come.
- Bread and the land!
- The struggles goes on!
- Our intelligence is born in struggle
- You must fashion the revolution with the people.
- Struggle is the seething pot out of which the learning of the future will emerge.
- Give dignity to all!