Howard Finley

“Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.”
― Steve Biko

“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die”
― Steve Biko

“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality. Double consciousness is knowing the history offered up to black people—its many interpretations and echoes of white superiority and black inferiority, of white heroism and black cowardice, and even the temporal and geographical location of history’s beginning as a step off of the African continent—is a falsehood that blacks are forced to treat as truth in so many countless ways. Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction.”
― Steve Biko, I Write What I Like: Selected Writings

“The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
― Steve Biko