Thomas Sankara Quotes

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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

Thomas Sankara
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women's silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.

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The quest for peace goes hand and hand with the firm application of the right of countries to independence, of peoples to liberation, and of nations to self-determination.

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Ours is the blood that nourished the rise of capitalism... The truth can no longer be concealed by doctoring numbers. For every black brought to the plantations at least five others died or were mutilated.

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Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

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We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

Thomas Sankara
Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them.

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Imperialism is the arsonist setting fire to our forests and savannah.

Thomas Sankara
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

Thomas Sankara
We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even

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Women suffer doubly from all the scourges of neocolonial society. First, they experience the same suffering as men. Second, they are subjected to additional suffering by men.

Thomas Sankara
The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

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As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us.

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