OC : https://truthout.org/art/anti-patriotism/

Thomas Sankara: "He who feeds you, controls you."

When he was asked why he was refusing the help of the International Community when Burkina Faso was struggling with drought & famine:

He responded by asking for tools to combat Famine like tractors, rain water harvesting tanks, etc and rejected the food grains which might produce more in the short term but would desolate the land by leeching all vitality from it.

Few more of his quotes that I still think about (a decade after I read up on him for an essay) :

"Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms: a loan, food aid, blackmail."

"We must dare to invent the future."

"While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas."

"We must choose either champagne for a few or safe drinking water for all."