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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.
- Steven Biko
#Attitude
#Black
#Life
#Positive
#Time
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
- Steven Biko
#Face
#Gift
#Human
#Possible
#Time
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.
- Steven Biko
#Alone
#Believe
#Lie
#Security
#Wealth
In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.
- Steven Biko
#Change
#Comfort
#Lose
#Struggle
#Without
A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.
- Steven Biko
#Black
#Freedom
#Game
#Man
#Tired
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.
- Steven Biko
#Birth
#Black
#Country
#Man
#Value
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.
- Steven Biko
#Black
#Man
#Oppression
#Own
#Shadow
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
- Steven Biko
#Alive
#Care
#Dead
#Either
#Proud
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
- Steven Biko
#Exist
#Happiness
#Never
#State
#Task
#Tension
A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
- Steven Biko
#Engine
#History
#Like
#People
#Positive
#Vehicle
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
- Steven Biko
#Apartheid
#Evil
#Nothing
#Petty
#Right
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.
- Steven Biko
#Chains
#Free
#Heart
#Mind
#Nothing
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.
- Steven Biko
#Against
#Black
#Fight
#Road
#Yourself
Black man, you are on your own.
- Steven Biko
#Black
#Man
#Own
#You
#Your
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.
- Steven Biko
#Change
#Lost
#People
#Personality
#Truth
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
- Steven Biko
#Attitude
#Black
#Matter
#Reflection
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
- Steven Biko
#Mind
#Most
#Oppressed
#Oppressor
#Weapon
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