We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of aligning actions with words and maintaining accountability in behavior.
Thomas Sankara highlights the crucial relationship between words and actions, urging individuals to ensure that their behavior reflects their commitments. Being vigilant about one's actions means being conscious of how they align with declared beliefs and intentions, which is essential for trustworthy leadership and integrity.
In practice
During a leadership workshop, this quote can inspire participants to hold themselves accountable in their roles.
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.
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.
We must dare to invent the future
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one, that is, to the point of attributing the ownership of the event to captain Sankara, who must have been the brains, etc.
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.
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.
Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.
I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of TV movies, I began to see that authority came with the job. So I began to relax and let more people into the process, and my work really improved.
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
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