Steven Biko Quotations

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

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

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

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

Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

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

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

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.