Quotes by Steven Biko

Steven Biko

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

Community

Different

Perception

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

Should

Tacit

Warning

Apartheid – both petty and grand – is obviously evil.

Apartheid

Evil

Petty

At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: “I’ve devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I’ve denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.

Arrogance

Children

Wife

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Attitude

Black

Reflection

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.

Attitude

Long

Positive

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. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression – the blackness of their skin – and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.

Attitude

Brother

Men

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

People

Thinking

Way

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

Black

Elements

Thinking

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.

Beats

Jail

Want

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Arrogance

Attitude

Beats

Believe

Black

Black Consciousness

Brother

Care

Children

Circles

Community

Country

Dedication

Determination

Dies

Different

Drawing

Elements

Essence

Evil

Faces

Games

Giving

Groups

Heart

Hero

Ideas

Ignorant

Jail

Land

Long

Lying

Made

Men

Military

Numbers

Oneself

Past

People

Perception

Perseverance

Personality

Petty

Positive

Pride

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Quotes by Steven Biko

Steven Biko

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

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

Apartheid – both petty and grand – is obviously evil.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

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.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

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

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.

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