Zitat des Tages von 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.
I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Black man, you are on your own.
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.
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
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.
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes under all sorts of names - liberals, leftists, etc. These are the people who argue that they are not responsible for white racism and the country's 'inhumanity to the black man.'
