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"The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between the two protaganists. That affirmed intention to place the last at the head of things, and to make them climb at a pace (too quickly, some say) the well-known steps which characterize an organized society, can only triumph if we use all means to turn the scale, including, of course, that of violence. You do not turn any society, however primitive it may be, upside down with such a program if you have not decided from the very beginning, that is to say from the actual formation of that program to overcome all the obstacles that you will come across in so doing. The native who decide to put the program into practice, and to become its moving force, is ready for violence at all times. From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohobitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence." Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth, p. 37.
 * "It is evident that whatever the attributes of pacifist doctrine, "revolutionary nonviolence" is a complete misnomer, that pacifism itself offers no coherent praxis for liberatory social transformation [...] The all but unquestioned legitimacy accruing to the principles of pacifist practice must be continuously and comprehensively subjected to the test of whether they, in themselves, are capab;e of delivering the bottom-line transformation of state-dominated social relations which alone constitutes the revolutionary/liberatory process. Where they are found to be incapable of such delivery, the principles must be broadened or transcended altogether as a means of achieving an adequate praxis." (pp. 89-90) Ward Churchill's, Pacifism as Pathology.
 * "[...] no gentleness can efface the mark of violence; only violence itself can destroy them. The native cures himself of colonial neuroses by thrusting out the settler through force of arms." (p.23) Preface to The Wretched of the Earth by Jean-Paul Sartre
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