Steven Biko Quotes

"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
(Related: Time, Life, Attitude, Positive, Consciousness, Mind, World)

"Black man, you are on your own."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Man)

"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Time)

"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
(Related: Change, Truth, People, 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."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Being, Fight, Road)

"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."
- Steven Biko

"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
(Related: Consciousness, Country, Dignity, Man, Value)

"The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Mind)

"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
- Steven Biko
(Related: Care)