“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.”

—  Steve Biko

Statement as witness (3 May 1976)

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anti-apartheid activist in South Africa 1946–1977

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