In The World Through Which I Travel,

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.

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.

Taking The Continent As A Whole, This Religious Tension May Be Responsible For The Revival Of The Commonest Racial Feeling. Africa Is Divided Into Black And White, And The Names That Are Substituted- Africa South Of The Sahara, Africa North Of The Sahara- Do Not Manage To Hide This Latent Racism. Here, It Is Affirmed That White Africa Has A Thousand-year-old Tradition Of Culture; That She Is Mediterranean, That She Is A Continuation Of Europe And That She Shares In Graeco-latin Civilization. Black Africa Is Looked On As A Region That Is Inert, Brutal, Uncivilized - In A Word, Savage.

Capitalist Exploitation And Cartels And Monopolies Are The Enemies Of Underdeveloped Countries. On The Other Hand A Regime Which Is Completely Oriented Towards The People As A Whole And Based On The Principle That Man Is The Most Precious Of All Possessions, Will Allow Us To Go Forward More Quickly And More Harmoniously, And Thus Make Impossible That Caricature Of Society Where All Economic And Political Power Is Held In The Hands Of A Few Who Regard The Nation As A Whole With Scorn And Contempt.

To Educate The Masses Politically Does Not Mean, Cannot Mean, Making A Political Speech. What It Means Is To Try, Relentlessly And Passionately, To Teach The Masses That Everything Depends On Them; That If We Stagnate It Is Their Responsibility, And That If We Go Forward It Is Due To Them Too, That There Is No Such Thing As A Demiurge, That There Is No Famous Man Who Will Take The Responsibility For Everything, But That The Demiurge Is The People Themselves And The Magic Hands Are Finally Only The Hands Of The People.