“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal or subjective one. It takes place objectively in practice, once women cease to be viewed as mere sexual… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true that both the woman and the male worker are condemned to silence by their exploitation. But under the… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one,… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
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