KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Steven Biko Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Steven Biko

Showing 11-20 of 24 Quotes by Steven Biko

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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

~Steven Biko

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.

~Steven Biko

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Black man, you are on your own.

~Steven Biko

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Activist

Born: December 18th, 1946

Died: September 12th, 1977

Links

Find Steven Biko on Amazon

Related Authors

Susan B. Anthony
Noam Chomsky
Florence Nightingale
Rosa Parks
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem
Harriet Tubman
Malcolm X

Popular Authors

Aesop Aristotle Ray Bradbury Dale Carnegie Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Alexander Hamilton Walt Whitman

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1938 - Kofi Annan

1947 - Robert Kiyosaki

1732 - David Rittenhouse

1859 - Edmund Husserl

1869 - Harvey Cushing

1888 - Dennis Chavez

1892 - Mary Pickford

1896 - E. Y. Harburg

1903 - Ilka Chase

1911 - Emil Cioran

Birthdays on April 8th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Failure Future Imagination Politics Smile Strength Teacher Truth