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the famous intellectual and novelist Anatole France thundered,
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quote, "whites do not communicate with blacks or yellow people
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except to enserf or massacre them.
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The people whom we call barbarians
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know us only through our own crimes.
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It is our responsibility as Frenchmen to denounce
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the crimes being committed in our name," end quote.
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Jean Jaurès, the leader of the Socialist party,
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went even further.
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Refuting the myth of the civilizing mission of the mission civilisatrice,
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in this case in Morocco, Jaurès said, quote,
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"there existed before the French takeover