![]() ![]() They use the same methods against both of them. In the first phase of this insurrectional period, the home governments are the slaves of the settlers, and these settlers seek to intimidate the natives and their home governments at one and the same time. The development of violence among the colonized people will be proportionate to the violence exercised by the threatened colonial regime. This reign of violence will be the more terrible in proportion to the size of the implantation from the mother country. The violence of the colonial regime and the counter-violence of the native balance each other and respond to each other in an extraordinary reciprocal homogeneity. Every statue, whether of Faidherbe or of Lyautey, of Bugeaud or of Sergeant Blandan-all these conquistadors perched on colonial soil do not cease from proclaiming one and the same thing: "We are here by the force of bayonets." The colonial regime owes its legitimacy to force and at no time tries to hide this aspect of things. ![]() The argument the native chooses has been furnished by the settler, and by an ironic turning of the tables it is the native who now affirms that the colonialist understands nothing but force. ![]() In fact, as always, the settler has shown him the way he should take if he is to become free. He of whom they have never stopped saying that the only language he understands is that of force, decides to give utterance by force. The existence of an armed struggle shows that the people are decided to trust to violent methods only. ![]()
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