He died today. Yet He lives.
A son of Africa died many tears ago, today who used his mind and words as a weapon a man of his people till the end He lived speaking his freedom for all He died a free man. He lived. .His mind and words was his weapon silenced by an unhappy blow he did not slip on a bar of soap he did not noose himself he did martyr himself he died a free man .
He lived to give the oppressed a voice He died a voice of the oppressed He lived and died freedom The freedom of his mind and words lives on. . As long as there are people oppressed and marginalized, as long as we think of each other as black, white and coloured your words will be a haunting echo in the conscious of mankind. If we do not heed your words and wisdom, society will keep on creating oppressed people. If we forget to pay respect to what you lived for than your passing will be in vain. But if we keep your thoughts of freedom and consciousness close to our hearts, our lives, our politics and beings than we will live the non-racial society that you dreamt of so many moons ago. Stephen Bantu Biko we remember you.
>> Ross Rayners <<