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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.

— Steve Biko I Write What I Like (1978)

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It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

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

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

I Write What I Like (1978)

This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

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

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

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