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Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.

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There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

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Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

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Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Albert Memmi

Albert Memmi

Born: December 15, 1920
Died: May 22, 2020 (aged 99)
Bio: Albert Memmi was a French writer and essayist of Tunisian-Jewish origin.
Known for:
  1. The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957)
  2. The pillar of salt (1955)
  3. Decolonization and the Decolonized (2006)
  4. La Statue De Sel (1953)
  5. Portrait of a Jew (1962)

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