Thomas Sankara: I said no to food aid because they have not helped us to develop. They have instead created a beggar mentality, we hold out our hands to receive food. That is not a good thing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2980
Thomas Sankara: Our families have stopped producing, because they can not sell what they produce. The surplus from farmers in other countries is brought in here. We want something else. Those who really want to help us can give us ploughs, tractors, fertilizer, insecticide, watering cans, drills, dams. That is how we would define food aid. But those who come with wheat, millet, corn or milk are not helping us. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2981
Karl Marx: The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilisation lies unveiled before our eyes turning from its home, where it assumes respectable forms, to the colonies, where it goes naked. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2984
