It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: “I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I've denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.

To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes