Steven Biko Quotes

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• The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
• Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
• Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek…
• You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
• So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to…
• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a…
• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have…
• The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the…
• In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
• The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being…
• The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of…
• We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth.…
• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a…
• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have…
• What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not…
• Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to…
• The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has…
• I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
• Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more…
• When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.

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