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

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