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“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. Women hold up the other half of the sky.”

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Book:We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87
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