Personal admiration and articulate remember for some
exhortations that President Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso on more than one
occasion he addressed the assembly of the United Nations
"You can
not make a fundamental change without a certain dose of madness. In this case
for failure: the courage to turn your back to the old formulas, the courage to
invent the future. It took the crazy yesterday to allow us to act with extreme
clarity today. I want to be one of those crazy. We must dare to invent the
future. »
"I speak
on behalf of the mothers in our impoverished countries see their children die
of malaria or diarrhea, without knowing the simple means that science
multinationals does not offer them, preferring to invest in cosmetics
laboratories or at the whim benefit plastic surgery a few men and women whose
charm is threatened by excessive caloric intake in their meals, so abundant and
regular dizzying us the Sahel"
"The
help we need is to help us to do without the aid '
As was unfortunately predictable Sankara was
assassinated.
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