On International Women’s Day, we honor Vietnamese revolutionary Võ Thị Thắng. Here, she smiles after receiving a 20-year labor camp sentence from the US-backed South Vietnamese government. She told the judge: “20 years? Your government won’t last that long.”
One March 8, Thomas Sankara declared a day of rest for women. Men were asked to go to the market to buy vegetables and do the household chores. The best speech by an African political leader on women's freedom came from Sankara in March 8, 1987, a few months before Sankara was assassinated. In the speech, Sankara said: "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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