Thomas Sankara Quotes

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

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

he who feeds you, controls you

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

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.

Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating.

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.

He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

We must dare to invent the future

Never be shamed of being Afrikan

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.

Women hold up the other half of the sky.

A military without political training is a potential criminal.

Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa

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.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.