Never be shamed of being Afrikan
Interpretation
Embrace your identity and heritage with pride.
This quote by Thomas Sankara encourages individuals to take pride in their African heritage and not to feel embarrassed or ashamed of their roots. In a world where cultural identities can sometimes be marginalized, it serves as a powerful reminder to honor and celebrate one's background, promoting self-acceptance and communal solidarity.
In practice
This quote can be used during a cultural awareness event to inspire pride among attendees.
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.
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.
If we have anything in common as humans it's the instinct to survive. When you go in the ring you are going against that instinct. You're running into conflict instead of away from That's when the complexity really begins.
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