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

— Steve Biko The Last Defenders of the Laager: Ian D. Smith and F.W. de Klerk (1985)

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As quoted in The Last Defenders of the Laager: Ian D. Smith and F.W. de Klerk (1985), by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 204; also in "The Mind of Black Africa" (1996) by Dickson A. Mungazi, p. 159, and under "Ideas" in The Penguin Dictionary of South Africa Quotations (2012) by Jennifer Crwys-Williams

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