Stephen Bantu Biko

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humor. He was motivated by the search for good and truth.
At the University of Natal Medicine in 1968, he became involved in the
multiracial National Union of South African Students. He was known by peers and
adults as a student leader This organization fought for black rights, except he
claimed that, "the white [were] doing all the talking and the blacks listening"
(Biko 210). Biko wanted the blacks to have as much say and participation as the
whites, so in 1968 he became the co-founder and first president of he South
African Students' Organization (SASO). This was an all-black organization,
which aim was to raise self respect and reliance to all blacks. He said, "Black
liberation starts with psychological self reliance. This can only be initiated
in isolation from allies whose good intentions are an obstacle to such self-
realization" (Woods 63). This organization helped the foundation of another
movement and convention, known as the South African Students' Movement, and ...

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