Steven Biko Quotes
So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
Biko, Steve. I Write What I Like. University of Chicago Press, 2002, p. 21.
Eight years and a Civil War later, he had changed his mind and was the sponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1866—the first Federal civil rights law in America. See {587711}.
As enlightened and progressive that his views on Blacks were, he was amazingly racist when it came to Native Americans. See {588991}.
Lincoln had been a Whig before he joined the Republican Party. Most Whigs had been opposed to the extension of slavery and some were abolitionists. The Whig Party was disintegrating. However, some of his former Whig associates had joined the anti-Catholic and anti-Immigrant Know-Nothing Party.
Bantu Stephen Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.
