Albert Memmi Quotes
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To be sure, the church has greatly assisted the colonialist; backing his ventures, helping his conscience, contributing to the acceptance of colonization even by the colonized.
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I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.
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It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.
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The most serious blow suffered by the colonized is being removed from history and from the community. Colonization usurps any free role in either war or peace, every decision contributing to his destiny and that of the world, and all cultural and social responsibility.
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Every colonial nation carries carries the seeds of a fascist temptation in its bossom. What is fascism if not a regime of oppression for the benefit of a few.
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Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.
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Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
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There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.
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Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge in sleep.
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For it is not without cause that one needs the police and the army to earn one's living or force and injustice to continue to exist.