Running water, three meals a day, a clinic, a school, and a simple plow are still elements of an ideal in life that millions of people in my country have not yet achievedThomas Sankara
Emancipation, like freedom, is not granted but conquered. It is for women themselves to put forward their demands and mobilize to win them.Thomas Sankara
The weight of the centuries-old traditions of our society has relegated women to the rank of beasts of burden…Thomas Sankara
You do not make a revolution simply to take the place of the former rulers you have overthrownThomas Sankara
The peasants are expropriated, robbed, molested, imprisoned, ridiculed, and humiliated every day, yet they are the ones whose labour creates wealthThomas Sankara
“… like the marabouts, even more so than the marabouts, the missionaries were iconoclasts, destroyers of values…Leopold Senghor
Contrary to the notion of numerous African politicians, culture is not an appendage that can be lopped off without damageLeopold Senghor
