Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara

Quotes

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

“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.”

“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.”

Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man

Thomas Sankara Video

About

Thomas Sankara was the president of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, a Burkinabé military captain and a Marxist revolutionary. He was also a noted proponent of Pan-Africanism and feminist.

Quotes

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

“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.”

“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.”

Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man

Thomas Sankara Video

About

Thomas Sankara was the president of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, a Burkinabé military captain and a Marxist revolutionary. He was also a noted proponent of Pan-Africanism and feminist.