Thomas Sankara Quotes

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

What is the aim of the feminists? Their aim is to achieve the same advantages, the same power, the same rights within capitalist society as those possessed now by their husbands, fathers and brothers. What is the aim of the women workers? Their aim is to abolish all privileges deriving from birth or wealth. For the woman worker it Is a matter of indifference who is the 'master' a man or a woman. Together with the whole of her class, she can ease her position as a worker.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Recorded history starts with a patriarchal revolution. Let it continue with the matriarchal counterrevolution that is the only hope for the survival of the human race.

We demand that, in the strange new world that is arising alike upon the man and the woman, where nothing is as it was, and all things are assuming new shapes and new relations, that in this new world we also have our share of honored and socially useful human toil, our full half of the labor of the Children of Women. We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less. That is our ‘Woman’s Right’.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.

Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes.

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.