Quotes by Thomas Sankara

“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...”

“I can hear the roar of women's silence”

“he who feeds you, controls you”

“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, bl...”

“I can hear the roar of women's silence.”

“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.”

“We want to get our army involved with the people in productive work and remind it constantly that, without patriotic training, a soldier is only a criminal with power.”

“I speak on behalf of the child, the child of the poor man, who is hungry and who furtively eyes the wealth piled up in the rich man's shop, a shop that is protected by a thick window, a window whic...”

“We wish to enjoy the inheritance of all the revolutions of the world, all the liberation struggles of the third-world peoples. We are trying to learn from the great upheavals that have transformed ...”

“We shall soon be celebrating the one-hundred- and-fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire. My delegation supports the proposal of Antigua and Barbuda for the commem...”

“In these tempestuous times, we can't leave our enemies of the past and the present the monopoly on thought, imagination, and creativity.”

“When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.”

“I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory. ... You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amo...”

“While I was in Moscow, while I was in the Soviet Union, they made us visit many historical places, many museums but also the city of stars [Star City], where the Soviets train their cosmonauts. The...”

“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 t...”

“We must recognize today that it is normal for the wealthiest to be the greatest thieves. When a poor man steals it is merely a theft, a petty crime — it is solely about survival and necessity. The ...”

“Capitalism is the arsonist of our forests.”

“We must choose between champagne for a few or drinking water for all.”

“In this context, some quotes from Thomas Sankara, a champion of anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism, resonate: A conscious people cannot entrust the defense of their homeland to a group of men, w...”