I Ascribe A Basic Importance To The

The Oppressed Will Always Believe The Worst About Themselves.

Collective Guilt Is Borne By What Is Conventionally Called The Scapegoat. Now The Scapegoat For White Society - Which Is Based On Myths Of Progress, Civilization, Liberalism, Education, Enlightenment, Refinement - Will Be Precisely The Force That Opposes The Expansion And The Triumph Of These Myths. This Brutal Opposing Force Is Supplied By The Negro.

For Europe, For Ourselves And For Humanity, Comrades, We Must Turn Over A New Leaf, We Must Work Out New Concepts, And Try To Set Afoot A New Man.

The Colonized Is Elevated Above His Jungle Status In Proportion To His Adoption Of The Mother Country's Cultural Standards.

And It Is Clear That In The Colonial Countries The Peasants Alone Are Revolutionary, For They Have Nothing To Lose And Everything To Gain. The Starving Peasant, Outside The Class System Is The First Among The Exploited To Discover That Only Violence Pays. For Him There Is No Compromise, No Possible Coming To Terms; Colonization And Decolonization A Simply A Question Of Relative Strength.