Steven Biko People Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions. In other words a community is easily divided when their perception of the same thing is different

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds.

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

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.