"I am a man, and I have a right to be treated as such."

"The colonizer is a man who has been alienated from his own humanity, from his own emotions, from his own compassion."

"The colonized is a being under the gaze of the other. It is this gaze that constitutes him as an object, as a thing."

"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted."

"At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect."