Albert Memmi Quotes on Freedom
Albert Memmi was a Tunisian-French Jewish philosopher, novelist, and essayist whose The Colonizer and the Colonized became one of the founding texts of postcolonial thought, with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre. This page collects quotes attributed to Albert Memmi on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Albert Memmi:
“The colonizer cannot stop himself from being a colonizer; the colonized cannot easily stop himself from being colonized.”
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Attributed to Albert Memmi:
“Decolonization is not the end of the colonial relation; it is the beginning of its long working out.”
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Attributed to Albert Memmi:
“The Jew is the object of the gaze of others; that gaze must be answered, not avoided.”
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Attributed to Albert Memmi:
“Liberation is achieved twice, once in the world and once in the self.”