Quote of the day: Bantu Stephen Biko
Quote of the Day brings you spoken word from some of the most eloquent South Africans from across the spectrum.
Quote of the Day brings you spoken word from some of the most eloquent South Africans from across the spectrum.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Bantu Stephen Biko
“I’m going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I’m not going to be what you want me to be.”
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.
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