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.

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