70 Quotes by Steven Biko

Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background

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

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.

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

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

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

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil