South African - Activist | December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977
We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes under all sorts of names - liberals, leftists, etc. These are the people who argue that they are not responsible for white racism and the country's 'inhumanity to the black man.'
Steven Biko
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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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We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
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The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
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Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
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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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You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
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I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.
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Black man, you are on your own.
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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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The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.
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The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.
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