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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
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'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.
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A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different
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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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You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
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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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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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If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.
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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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It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.
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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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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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I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society
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A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
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This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values
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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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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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Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
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