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Aime Cesaire Quotes on Politics

Aime Cesaire was a Martinican poet, playwright, and philosopher and a co-founder of the Negritude movement. This page collects quotes attributed to Aime Cesaire on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Aime Cesaire:

    “Colonization equals thingification.”

  • Attributed to Aime Cesaire:

    “Europe is indefensible.”

  • Attributed to Aime Cesaire:

    “A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.”

  • Attributed to Aime Cesaire:

    “Negritude is the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our history and our culture.”

  • Attributed to Aime Cesaire:

    “I am of the race of those who are oppressed.”

  • Attributed to Aime Cesaire:

    “It is a new society that we must create, with the help of all our brother slaves, a society rich with all the productive power of modern times, warm with all the fraternity of olden days.”