48 Quotes by Steve Biko

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

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

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence.

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.

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

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.

Apartheid – both petty and grand – is obviously evil.

To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.