Occupation: Political Figure Birth: December 21, 1949 Death: October 15, 1987
May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence..
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and develo….
The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion.….
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 fut….
Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often o….
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 le….
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.
Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is ….
If you take a walk around Ouagadougou and make a list of the mansions you see, you will note that they belong to just a minority. How many of you who….
We must dare to invent the future.
Never be shamed of being Afrikan.
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal..
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness..
He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you..
The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance..
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas..
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 recondi….
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….
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….
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 m….