Thomas Sankara Quotes
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.
A week later he was assassinated in a French-backed coup.
Thomas Sankara, 1949–1987, Revolutionary Leader & President of Burkina Faso, October 8, 1987
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There were many Americans who were Tories and proBritish. There were also many who, while they were not pro British, were not enthusiastic about the Revolution and the death and devastation that it brought. In France however, the American Revolution was seen in much more romantic and theoretical terms. See {621958} and {621957}.
This quotation illustrates how much of an egomaniac Hitler was. Here, he had achieved almost nothing in his life very significant yet, and he compared his points to those of the founder of Protestantism when Martin Luther nailed his points to the doors of the Roman Catholic Church in Wittenberg. For a short time, they actually became more important to Germans that the points of Luther, but that didn’t last very long, and Germany has reformed itself and Luther’s points are well remembered, and Hitler’s are only studied by scholars interested in the history of the period and the Nazi era—the most tragic in German history.
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military officer and socialist revolutionary who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. A Marxist–Leninist and pan-Africanist, he was viewed by supporters as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution and is sometimes referred to as "Africa's Che Guevara".
