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To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.


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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.



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Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.



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

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



Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.



A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.



What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.



To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.



He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.



The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.





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A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.




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