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Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
~ Steven Biko
Attitude
Being
Black
Matter
Mental
Mental Attitude
Reflection
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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.
~ Steven Biko
Attitude
Black
Call
Consciousness
Life
Long
Long Time
Mind
Most
Positive
Time
Way
World
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Black man, you are on your own.
~ Steven Biko
Black
Man
Own
You
Your
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
~ Steven Biko
Africa
Bestow
Face
Gift
Greatest
Human
Human Face
More
Position
Possible
Shall
South
South Africa
Time
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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.
~ Steven Biko
Becomes
Change
Lost
More
Necessary
Only
People
Personality
Realize
See
Truth
Vehicle
Who
You
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
~ Steven Biko
Against
Being
Black
Blackness
Committed
Describing
Emancipation
Fight
Forces
Marks
Merely
Out
Road
Seek
Stamp
Started
Towards
Use
You
Your
Yourself
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We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
~ Steven Biko
Africa
Also
Blacks
Groups
Human
Inferior
Know
Made
Must
Only
Prelude
Realize
Relationships
Same
South
South Africa
Superior
Which
Whites
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
~ Steven Biko
Basic
Birth
Black
Consciousness
Country
Dignity
Foreigner
Him
His
Human
Human Dignity
Make
Man
Must
Reduce
Reject
Seek
Systems
Value
Value Systems
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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
~ Steven Biko
Mind
Most
Oppressed
Oppressor
Potent
Weapon
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You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
~ Steven Biko
Alive
Anyway
Care
Dead
Either
Proud
You
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A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves.
~ Steven Biko
Black
Blacks
Depend
Freedom
Game
Granted
Him
Himself
His
Independent
Lead
Man
More
Playing
Should
Someone
Standing
Take
Themselves
Things
Tired
Want
Witness
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A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.
~ Steven Biko
Engine
History
Like
People
Positive
Vehicle
Without
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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.
~ Steven Biko
Apartheid
Arrogant
Assumption
Both
Clique
Decide
Evil
Foreigners
Grand
Justify
Lives
Majority
Nothing
Obviously
Petty
Right
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Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.
~ Steven Biko
Black
Black Community
Community
Consciousness
Culture
Efforts
Infuse
Life
Outlook
Pride
Religion
Seeks
Systems
Themselves
Value
Value Systems
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I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.
~ Steven Biko
Doing
Entered
Expelled
June
Medicine
Stayed
Student
Then
University
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I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.
~ Steven Biko
Ask
Describe
Fighter
Freedom
Myself
People
Who
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If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.
~ Steven Biko
Bind
Chains
Controlled
Free
Heart
His
Man-Made
Manipulated
Masters
Mind
Nothing
Oppressed
Oppressor
Powerful
Scare
Servitude
Then
Will
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In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.
~ Steven Biko
Be Prepared
Bid
Casualties
Change
Coats
Comfort
Families
Jobs
Lose
Off
Our
Positions
Prepared
Prestige
Security
Struggle
Take
Without
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The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
~ Steven Biko
Bearing
Become
Black
Defeated
Drowning
His
Man
Misery
Oppression
Own
Ox
Shadow
Shell
Slave
Timidity
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The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills.
~ Steven Biko
Apartheid
Bad
Been
Capitalist
Complex
Coupled
Deliberate
Enough
Exploitation
Fact
Has-Been
Makes
Material
More
Much
Oppression
Poverty
Problem
Spiritual
Supremacy
Tied
Up
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White
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Steven Biko
Profession
Activist
BirthDate
18 December, 1946
DeathDate
12 September, 1977
Country
South Africa
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