Frantz Fanon Quotes on Justice
Frantz Fanon was a Martinican-born psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary whose work has been foundational for postcolonial theory. This page collects quotes attributed to Frantz Fanon on the topic of justice, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Frantz Fanon:
“The colonized man finds his freedom in and through violence.”
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“We are nothing on earth if we are not in the first place the slaves of a cause, the cause of the peoples, the cause of justice and liberty .”
Letter to Roger Tayeb, December 1961, as cited in Peter Geismar, Fanon (1971), p. 185. -
“The serf is essentially different from the knight , but a reference to divine right is needed to justify this difference in status.”
The Wretched of the Earth(1961) | p. 5 -
“I said just above that South Africa has a racist structure. Now I shall go farther and say that Europe has a racist structure.”
Black Skin, White Masks(1952) | p. 92