Thomas Sankara Quotes

I don't have to make my own bed.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

I don't owe nobody nothing.

I have no favors to pay back.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

I don't need adult supervision.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I don't have to be in politics.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

Grown men do not need leaders.