What must be done is to restore this dream to its proper time, and this time is the period during which eighty thousand natives were killed–that is to say, one of every fifty persons in the population; and to its proper place, and this place is an island of four million people, at the center of which no real relationship can be established, where dissension breaks out in every direction, where the only masters are lies and demagogy. One must concede that in some circumstances the socius is more important than the individual.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 375