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“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

Source: "White Racism and Black Consciousness", paper at the Abe Bailey Institute student conference, Cape Town, January 1971; in I Write What I Like (1978)

Context Delivered to a largely white student audience while he led the Black Consciousness Movement, arguing that liberation under apartheid first required Black people to reject internalised inferiority.

Steve BikoSouth Africa · 1946–1977

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