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Quote by Steve Biko
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind o

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

Other quotes by Steve Biko

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. – Steve Biko

Category:
Reason
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Steve Biko
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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. – Steve Biko

Category:
Racism
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Steve Biko
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Other Quotes from
Oppression
category

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
Oppression

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

Category:
Oppression

First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided. – General Iberico Saint Jean

Category:
Oppression

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. – Saul Bellow

Category:
Oppression

Random Quotes

I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual. – Sela Ward

Category:
Religion

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. – Henry A. Wallace

Category:
Patriotism

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. – Joseph Butler

Category:
alone

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
America