Biko Quotes: top 33 famous quotes about Biko

Biko Quotes & Sayings

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This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values — Steven Biko

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country. — Steven Biko

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country — Steven Biko

If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative. — Steven Biko

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

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway. — Steven Biko

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own! — Steven Biko

all is dead
but for the mosquitoes
singing
their blood song — Thabo Jijana

I write what I like — Steve 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. — Steven Biko

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own — Steven Biko

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine. — Steven Biko

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people. — Steven Biko

Change the way people think and things will never be the same — Steven Biko

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook — Steven Biko

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black. — Steven Biko

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. — Steven Biko

The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steve Biko

Black man, you are on your own. — Steven Biko

The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that. — Euginia Herlihy

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. — Steven Biko

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil — Steven Biko

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude. — Steven Biko

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power — Steven Biko

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society — Steven Biko

Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes — Steven Biko

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die — Steve Biko

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different — Steven Biko

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. — Steven Biko

When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'. — Steven Biko

The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture. — Steven Biko

We believe in the inherent goodness of man. — Steven Biko

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