Steven Biko Quotes

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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of

the oppressed.
Steven Biko
Mind, Weapon, Oppressor

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is

a reflection of a mental attitude.
Steven Biko
Attitude, Black, Matter

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when
you are dead, you can't care anyway.
Steven Biko
Care, Proud, Dead

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.
Steven Biko
Yourself, Fight, 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
Human, Superior, Inferior

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.
Steven Biko
Life, Time, Positive

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.
Steven Biko
Truth, Change, Lost

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.
Steven Biko
Human, Black, Him

Black man, you are on your own.

Steven Biko
Black

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa

the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
Steven Biko
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