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The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
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
Netherlands
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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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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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Change the way people think and things will never be the same
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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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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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Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes
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We believe in the inherent goodness of man.
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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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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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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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A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
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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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In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own
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The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.
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If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.
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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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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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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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