Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara Quotes

We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara renamed the country Burkina Faso—the Land of Incorruptible People—and wrote the national anthem.

The slave who cannot assume his revolt does not deserve pity. That slave alone is responsible for his misfortune if he deludes himself about the suspect condescension of a master’s false promise of freedom. Only struggle liberates, and we call on all our sisters of all races to rise up to regain their rights.

This is why we say the petty bourgeoisie is constantly torn between two interests. It has two books. On the one hand Karl Marx's Capital, on the other a checkbook. It wavers: Che Guevara or Onassis? They have to choose.