Steven Biko (Bantu Stephen Biko) Quotes

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

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• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Together
  • King

• I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Women

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • More
  • Preaching

• The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Business
  • Government
  • Leaving

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Money

• The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Food
  • Powerful
  • Fast

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • She
  • Amazing
  • Style

• In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Thought
  • Potential

• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Values
  • Your
  • Morals

• Scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. In the words of Job, 'when I looked for light, then came darkness.' Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Job
  • Bad

• With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Freedom
  • Band

• I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Good
  • Optimistic

• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Learn
  • Laugh
  • Grow

• There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • People
  • Diversity

• To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

  

  Kip Winger
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

  

  Steven Biko
  • People
  • History
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