Thomas Sankara Quotes

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

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

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.... If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

During the ages, no rebellion has been of like importance with that of Woman against the tyranny of Church and State; none has had its far reaching effects.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

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

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

I want to empower women.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

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

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

I do believe in women. I really do.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.