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

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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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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Other Quotes from
Oppression
category

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? – Vaclav Havel

Category:
Oppression

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it. – Herbert Marcuse

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

When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice. If you are stronger, you have to help the weaker boy or girl both in play and in the work. – Sarojini Naidu

Category:
Oppression

Random Quotes

Dream in a pragmatic way. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Dreams

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Morality

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
Self

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. – Bette Davis

Category:
Truth