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.


Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87 (ed. Pathfinder Pr, 1988)

Thomas Sankara Quotes

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...