A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine. — Steven Biko Engine Copy Share Image
The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power — Steven Biko Direct Copy Share Image
If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative. — Steven Biko Conservative Copy Share Image
The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country — Steven Biko Country Copy Share Image
We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own! — Steven Biko Black Copy Share Image
When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as… — Steven Biko Beautiful Copy Share Image
The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people. — Steven Biko Black people Copy Share Image
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox… — Steven Biko Defeated Copy Share Image
The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do… — Steven Biko Blacks Copy Share Image
I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society — Steven Biko Black Copy Share Image
I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people. — Steven Biko Facts Copy Share Image
We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook — Steven Biko Believe Copy Share Image
The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great… — Steven Biko Done Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land… — Steven Biko Approach Copy Share Image
In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs… — Steven Biko Change Copy Share Image
To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man… — Steven Biko Black Copy Share Image
Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their… — Steven Biko Black community Copy Share Image
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and… — Steven Biko Free Copy Share Image
Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has… — Steven Biko Apartheid Copy Share Image
Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned… — Steven Biko Attitude Copy Share Image
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these… — Steven Biko Allowing Copy Share Image
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. — Steven Biko Attitude Copy Share Image
This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values — Steven Biko Integration Copy Share Image
Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black. — Steven Biko Black Copy Share Image
I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm… — Steven Biko Beats Copy Share Image
Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes — Steven Biko Change Copy Share Image
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway. — Steven Biko Alive Copy Share Image
In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own — Steven Biko Black Copy Share Image
A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different — Steven Biko Community Copy Share Image
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all… — Steven Biko Black Copy Share Image
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a… — Steven Biko Birth Copy Share Image
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex.… — Steven Biko Africa Copy Share Image
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these… — Steven Biko Change Copy Share Image
People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work… — Steven Biko Able Copy Share Image
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black… — Steven Biko Attitude Copy Share Image
Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to… — Steven Biko Accepting Copy Share Image
