 At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.  The Politics of Protest - Page 109de Jerome H. Skolnick, United States. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence - 1969 - 276 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security - 1971 - 174 pages
...psychological transformation as a result of reliance on violence, whether the violence was real or symbolic : At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing...despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect. Even if the armed struggle has been symbolic and the nation is demobilized through... | |
 | Martin Minogue, Judith Molloy - 1974 - 506 pages
...under-development. The struggle, they say, goes on. The people realize that life is an unending contest . . . At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing...despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect. Even if the armed struggle has been symbolic and the nation is demobilized through... | |
 | Sam Charles Sarkesian - 1975 - 656 pages
...now-fashionable theory of violence as a liberating force. 'At the level of individuals,' according to Fanon, 'violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native...despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.' 27 The radical 'New Left' in western countries as well as the Guevarists in Latin... | |
 | Tzvetan Todorov - 1995 - 260 pages
...reconciled him to colonialism. "At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force," he writes. "It frees the native from his inferiority complex...despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect" (94). "The colonized man finds his freedom in and through violence"(86). Sartre goes... | |
 | Bonnie Honig - 2010 - 401 pages
...This is why Fanon can understand violence "at the level of individuals" as a "cleansing force" that "frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction" (37, 51, 52, 45, 53,94). Is Arendt righr, or wrong, to find Fanon politically irresponsible for advocating... | |
 | James T. Patterson - 1996 - 881 pages
...we made them pay attention to us.""1 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., of Harlem added in 1967, "Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex. ""2 Some Americans reacted to the riots by calling on LBJ and Congress to do something to improve life... | |
 | Daryl Michael Scott - 1997 - 300 pages
...personality."21 To Fanon, the oppressed were attracted to violence in part because of its therapeutic effect. "At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing...despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect."22 As with Malcolm X, the radicals employed Fanon's revolutionary vision, but left... | |
 | J. Michael Dash - 1998 - 220 pages
...each individual forms a violent link in the great chain, a part of the great organism of violence. Violence is a cleansing force, it frees the native...despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self respect.2* The imagery of fiery, explosive change as a cleansing, unifying, and illuminating... | |
 | Geoffrey Sanborn - 1998 - 274 pages
...Frantz Fanon similarly argues that the unmediated, excessive violence of the decolonization process is "a cleansing force. It frees the native from his...despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect."17 It takes place, he says, in "lightning flashes of consciousness which fling the... | |
 | Bruce Vandervort - 1998 - 298 pages
...what he called "counterviolence". At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It trees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it nukes him fearless and restores his self-respect.36 Senegal Inteoduction Some two hundred years before... | |
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