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Colonialism is not a machine capable of thinking, a body endowed with reason. It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Richard Philcox

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For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say no.

From chapter 10 of The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

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