“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.”
True social transformation cannot happen while half the population remains unfree; women's liberation is not charity but a precondition for revolution.
— Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso
Source: Thomas Sankara, speech on the status of women, 1983-87, excerpted in Thomas Sankara Speaks (Pathfinder Press, 1988) and Wikiquote
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