Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it.

We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march forth with courage and determination, drawing strength from our common plight and our brotherhood [and sisterhood]. In time we shall be in a position to bestow upon South Africa the greatest gift possible--a more human face

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.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.