Geoffrey'S

“The patriarchal family made its appearance, founded on the sole and personal property of the father, who had become head of the family. Within this family the woman was oppressed.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

“The condition of women is therefore at the heart of the question of humanity itself, here, there, and everywhere.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

“[N]othing whole, nothing definitive or lasting can be accomplished in our country as long as a crucial part of ourselves is kept in this condition of subjugation—a condition imposed over the course of centuries by various systems of exploitation.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

“We have no need of a feminized apparatus to bureaucratically manage women's lives or to issue sporadic statements about women's lives by smooth-talking functionaries. What we need are women who will fight because they know that without a fight the old order will not be destroyed and no new order will be built. We are not looking to organize what exists but to definitively destroy and replace it.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle