Steven Biko

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil

— Steven Biko

Black man, you are on your own.

— Steven Biko

We believe in the inherent goodness of man.

— Steven Biko

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

— Steven Biko

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

— Steven Biko

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

— Steven Biko

If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.

— Steven Biko

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

— Steven Biko

I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.

— Steven Biko

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

— Steven Biko

The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.

— Steven Biko

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

— Steven Biko

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still…

— Steven Biko

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos…

— Steven Biko

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must…

— Steven Biko

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming…

— Steven Biko

Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the…

— Steven Biko

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

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox…

— Steven Biko

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to…

— Steven Biko

We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God…

— Steven Biko

We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude,…

— Steven Biko

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that…

— Steven Biko

We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize.…

— Steven Biko

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black…

— Steven Biko

The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn…

— Steven Biko

We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes…

— Steven Biko

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these…

— Steven Biko

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

— Steven Biko

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

— Steven Biko

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

— Steven Biko

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

— Steven Biko

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

— Steven Biko

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

— Steven Biko

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

— Steven Biko

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

— Steven Biko

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

— Steven Biko

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

— Steven Biko

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

— Steven Biko

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

— Steven Biko