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I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
Steven Biko
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Steven Biko
Age: 30 †
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
Died: 1977
Died: September 12
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Amsterdam
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Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background
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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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We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre
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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.
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Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes
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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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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 to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.
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The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
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If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.
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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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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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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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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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I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.
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In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own
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A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different
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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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Change the way people think and things will never be the same
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