Quotes by Steven Biko

• 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.
• In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
• 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.
• 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.
• So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
• 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.
• The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
• You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.