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What's great today is that it's the artists who are keeping the flame of the revolution alive.

— Odile Sankara

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Since October 31, 2014, and the fall of Compaoré, theater has been revived in Burkina. It has even become the country's primary political platform.

Unfortunately, men aren't ready to let go. Liberia set an example with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She steered the ship well, so it's possible. There are women who are capable of taking the reins of power, but I don't think the mentalities are read.

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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