Aime Cesaire Quotes
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
Césaire, Aimé. And the Dogs Were Silent. Lyric and Dramatic Poetry 1946-82, translated by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith, University Press of Virginia, 1990.
This is a particularly ironic quote. Although Arafat verbally and officially opposed torture, but used it frequently within the PLO and its “law enforcement” efforts amongst the Palestinians.
He was a key figure in the Social Gospel movement which flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Many saw this movement as more dangerous than Communism and some even saw it as Communism. In America there have always been left and right wings of religion and one or the other tends to make the most noise at a particular era.
Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a Francophone and Martinican poet, an Afro-Caribbean author and politician from the region of Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature". His works include the book-length poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939), Une Tempête, a response to Shakespeare's play The Tempest, and Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism), an essay describing the strife between the colonizers and the colonized. His works have been translated into many languages.
