Steven Biko Quotes

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

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  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Black

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Greatest, Human

• 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 long time.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time

• 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 lost their personality.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Change

• 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 to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fight, Black

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mind, Weapon

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care, Proud

• Black man, you are on your own.

  Steven Biko

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black

• 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 realise that they are also human, not inferior.

  Steven Biko

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human

• 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 country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human

Steven Biko (10)

Birth:	18th December, 1946
Death:	12th September, 1977
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Activist

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