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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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Steven Biko
Age: 30 †
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
Died: 1977
Died: September 12
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I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
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The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.
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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 comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
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Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.
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If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.
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The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
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To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.
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You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
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It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.
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Change the way people think and things will never be the same
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I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society
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The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.
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The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.
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Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.
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We believe in the inherent goodness of man.
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Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it.
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