Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
Frantz Fanon Quotes
Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.
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| Birth: | 20th July, 1925 |
| Death: | 6th December, 1961 |
| Nationality: | Algerian, French |
| Profession: | Psychiatrist |
About
Frantz Omar Fanon was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique. He was a Martinique-born Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher, and author whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, he supported the Algerian War of Independence from France, and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. He wrote several books include: Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, The Wretched of the Earth, Concerning Violence, and Toward the African Revolution.
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