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.
He who feeds you, controls you.
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.
I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.
May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
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.
When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.
We must dare to invent the future.
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women.
We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.
Never be ashamed of being African.
Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.
I can hear the roar of women’s silence.
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.
Women hold up the other half of the sky...
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa’s absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.
The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women.