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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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Amsterdam
Netherlands
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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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WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence
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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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The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.
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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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It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.
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What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people.
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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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I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
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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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In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own
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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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You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
Steven Biko
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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Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes
Steven Biko
A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different
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We believe in the inherent goodness of man.
Steven Biko
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.
Steven Biko
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.
Steven Biko
