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Thomas Sankara
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Thomas Sankara
Age: 37 †
Born: 1949
Born: December 21
Died: 1987
Died: October 15
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Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara
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I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.
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He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.
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The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
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The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.
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We must dare to invent the future
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A military without political training is a potential criminal.
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Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.
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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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Women hold up the other half of the sky.
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Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa
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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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While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.
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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
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Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.
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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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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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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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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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Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women
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Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating.
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