Thomas Sankara Quotes

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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 turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

  Thomas Sankara

  Yesterday, Fundamentals, Want

  "Sankara: Un nouveau pouvoir africain" by Jean Ziegler, 1986.

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• The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

  Thomas Sankara

  Ignorance, People, Enemy

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• Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.

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  Fighting, Gun, Men

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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 a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

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  Compassion, Sky, Together

  Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press

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• We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even

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  Real, Sacrifice, People

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

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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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  Way To Live, Way, Dignity

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• Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

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  Patriotic, Political, Soldier

  Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press

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

  Thomas Sankara

  Ideas, Upright Man, Revolutionary

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• Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating.

  Thomas Sankara

  Men, Creating, Imagine

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• 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.

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  Eye, Feet, People

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

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• He who feeds you, controls you

  Thomas Sankara

  Upright Man

  "Burkina Faso's revolutionary hero Thomas Sankara to be exhumed" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2015.

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• I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.

  Thomas Sankara

  People, Humanity, Want

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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 of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

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  Yesterday, Want, Able

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

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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 through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.

  Thomas Sankara

  Growth, Development, Debt

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• May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

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  Eye, Feet, People

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

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• He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.

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  Doe, Demand

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

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

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  Fundamentals, Madness, Certain

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

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• When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

  Thomas Sankara

  People, Imperialism

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

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• Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them.

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  Mean, Men, Rights

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

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• Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of the free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabè.

  Thomas Sankara

  Struggle, Self Confidence, Taught Us

  "We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Lessons from Thomas Sankara" by Akinyemi Adeseye, May 15, 2010.

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• The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.

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  Country, Successful, Thinking

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• We must dare to invent the future

  Thomas Sankara

  Dare

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

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• The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

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  Ignorance, Clouds, Shining

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• Never be shamed of being Afrikan

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• Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa

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  Debt

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