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.”
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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.”
The Colonizer and the Colonized(1957) | p. 137