Tribute to STEVE BIKO

There Martin Luther King is Steve Biko! Steve Biko was an African Activist during the apartheid. I gauranteee many of you have never heard of this guy. He was right along with Nelson Mandela During apartheid but instead of locking Biko up at Robbin Island, he was hung and brutally killed. Biko did more than just attempt to fight for rights he was apart of a movement of AFRICANISM.  He promoted black consciousness. I'm not going to do a biography here so I decided to let him speak for himself. Here are some qouotes taken from interviews and speeches.

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


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.
Black man, you are on your own.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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