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“For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must make a new start, develop a new way of thinking, and endeavor to create a new man.”

Source: Les Damnés de la Terre (1961), final sentence

Context The last words of The Wretched of the Earth, published days before his death in December 1961, urging the decolonised world not to copy Europe.

Portrait of Frantz Fanon
Frantz FanonMartinique / Algeria · 1925–1961
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