That same Europe where they were never done talking of Man, and where they never stopped proclaiming that they were only anxious for the welfare of Man: today we know with what sufferings humanity has paid for every one of their triumphs of the mind.Ĭome, then, comrades, the European game has finally ended we must find something different. So, my brothers, how is it that we do not understand that we have better things to do than to follow that same Europe?
She has only shown herself parsimonious and niggardly where men are concerned it is only men that she has killed and devoured. Europe has declined all humility and all modesty but she has also set her face against all solicitude and all tenderness.
Look at how the shadow of her palaces stretches out ever farther! Every one of her movements has burst the bounds of space and thought.
Look at them today swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration.Īnd yet it may be said that Europe has been successful in as much as everything that she has attempted has succeeded.Įurope undertook the leadership of the world with ardour, cynicism and violence. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. We must leave our dreams and abandon our old beliefs and friendships of the time before life began.
The new day which is already at hand must find us firm, prudent and resolute. We must shake off the heavy darkness in which we were plunged, and leave it behind. Source: Les damnés de la terre by François Maspéro éditeur in 1961 įirst published: in Great Britain by Macgibbon and Kee in 1965 Ĭome, then, comrades it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
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