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45 days ago
A thread of quotes from Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire. 🧵
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“It is not a question of eliminating the inequalities among men but widening them and making them into a law.”
-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
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“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization”
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“No one colonizes with impunity either; that a nation which colonizes, that a civilization which justifies colonization- and therefore force- is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased..”
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This whole section:
“I hear the storm. They talk to me about progress, about "achieve-ments," diseases cured, improved standards of living.”
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-Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization”
“I hear the storm. They talk to me about progress, about "achieve-ments," diseases cured, improved standards of living.”