“For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.”

— Frantz Fanon · Action quote

For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man. — Frantz Fanon quote card
Martinican psychiatrist and philosopher · 1925 – 1961

Martinican psychiatrist and philosopher whose books Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth became foundational texts on colonialism, race and liberation. He joined Algeria's independence struggle and died at thirty-six.

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