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“There is no demiurge, no illustrious man taking responsibility for everything, but … the demiurge is the people and the magic lies in their hands and their hands alone.”

Source: Les Damnés de la Terre (1961), ch. 3 'Mésaventures de la conscience nationale'

Context Warning newly independent nations against one-party rule and personality cults, he argues that political education must show the masses that progress depends on them.

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Frantz FanonMartinique / Algeria · 1925–1961
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