Thomas Sankara

(1949–1987) Politician

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Thomas Sankara was a politician, best known for La emancipación de la mujer y la lucha africana por la libertad.

Quick Facts About Thomas Sankara

Born: December 21, 1949
Died: October 15, 1987
Profession: Politician
Notable works: La emancipación de la mujer y la lucha africana por la libertad

About Thomas Sankara

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who, following his takeover in a coup, remained in power as the first President of Burkina Faso from 1983 until his assassination in 1987. He was also the 5th Prime Minister of Upper Volta from January to May 1983.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Thomas Sankara · Page 2

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

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Ideas

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We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

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Dignity

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Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa

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Debt

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He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you,

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Demand

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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to…

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Able

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

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Amount

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I can hear the roar of women's silence

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Silence

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The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of…

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Acts of charity

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The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

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French revolution

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“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal…

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Dialectical-materialism

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It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one…

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Able

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Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development…

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Conquest

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“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true…

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Marriage

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