fuckyeahthomassankara:

In acknowledging that we are part of the Third World now we are, to paraphrase José Martí, “affirming that our cheek feels the blow struck against any man, anywhere in the world.” Until now we have turned the other cheek. The blows we re-doubled. The evil heart did not soften. The word of Christ was betrayed and his cross was transformed into a club. They put on his robe and rent our bodies and souls asunder. They obscured his message. They westernised it, while we understood it as on of universal liberation. Well, our eyes are now open to the class struggle, and there will be no more blows.

—Thomas Sankara, speech to the 39th Session of the UN General Assembly