Thomas Sankara Quotes

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

It is very significant – their songs about the oppressed people…. A race who can sing these songs like that will cause trouble one of these days.

Peoples, hear the signal! Arise, for the last battle The International Fights for the Rights of Man! No higher being can save us, No God, no Kaiser, nor tribune Saving us from misery we ourselves alone must do!

There is nobody on this planet who was ever liberated by an athlete or an entertainer.

I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

You'll be free or die!

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.