Thomas Sankara Speaks The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87

Let's be clear. Although our revolution is not made for export, we don't intend to go out of our way to shut the Burkinabe Revolution up inside an impenetrable fortress.

Our revolution is an ideology that blows freely and is at the disposal of all those who feel the need to take advantage of it.

The women and men of our society are all victims of imperialist oppression and domination. That is why they wage the same battle. 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 is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph.

Women hold up the other half of the sky.