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He who feeds you, controls you
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Never be shamed of being Afrikan
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We must dare to invent the future
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I can hear the roar of women's silence
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Women
I Can
Silence
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I can hear the roar of women's silence.
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Women
Silence
Hear
Roar
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Women hold up the other half of the sky.
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Half
Other Half
Sky
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When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.
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Imperialism
People
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Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa
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The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
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Men
French Revolution
Revolution
Rights
Taught
Taught Us
French
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He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.
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Demand
Doe
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Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating.
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Men
Creating
Imagine
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The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.
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Enemy
Ignorance
People
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A military without political training is a potential criminal.
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Military
Political
Training
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The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women
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Emancipation
Revolution
Triumph
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While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.
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Ideas
Revolutionary
Upright Man
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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.
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Change
Amount
Certain
Fundamentals
Madness
Out
Cannot
Carry
Without
Fundamental
Fundamental Change
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Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women
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Liberation
Revolution
Social
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Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.
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Patriotic
Political
Soldier
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I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.
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Humanity
People
Want
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We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity
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Dignity
Way
Way To Live
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May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.
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Eye
Feet
People
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We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.
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Effort
Our Actions
Our Words
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The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
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Clouds
Ignorance
Shining
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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.
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Future
Able
Clarity
Dare
Madmen
Today
Want
Yesterday
Act
Extreme
Those
Must
Invent
Took
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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.
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Opportunity
Absence
Arrogance
People
Rights
Unjust
Veto
Africa
Miss
Club
Ended
Powers
Question
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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.
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Compassion
Sky
Together
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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.
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Debt
Development
Growth
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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.
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Humanity
Struggle
Wish
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Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.
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Eye
Feet
People
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We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even
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People
Real
Sacrifice
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Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them.
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Men
Mean
Rights
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Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.
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Men
Fighting
Gun
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The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.
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Country
Successful
Thinking
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Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of the free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabè.
Thomas Sankara / Political Figure
Self Confidence
Struggle
Taught Us
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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. 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.
Thomas Sankara / Political Figure
Fundamentals
Want
Yesterday
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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.
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Men
Mistake
Stars
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If you take a walk around Ouagadougou and make a list of the mansions you see, you will note that they belong to just a minority. How many of you who have been assigned to Ouagadougou from the farthest corners of the country have had to move every night because you've been thrown out of the house you have rented? To those who have acquired houses and land through corruption we say: start to tremble. If you have stolen, tremble, because we will come after you
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Country
Moving
Night
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