Top 22 Quotes by Steven Biko

About Steven Biko

These are some quotes by South African author Steven Biko Activist, who lived between December 18, 1946 and September 12, 1977.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

Steven Biko

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Steven Biko

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.

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

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steven Biko

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

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

Steven Biko

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.

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

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.

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

Black man, you are on your own.

Black man, you are on your own.

Steven Biko

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

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

Steven Biko

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