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" I am a living symbol of the white man's fear. I never realized how deeply embedded this fear is until I came to Brandfort. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
I Am
Man
Never
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" They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become. "
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" To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter. "
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" I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "
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" When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy. "
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" Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us. "
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" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "
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" We talk of a rainbow nation - in a country that remains dichotomized between black and white. We must acknowledge that the rainbow, in fact, is still a dream. "
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" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "
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" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
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" No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us. "
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Law
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" I don't say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of the ANC after 17 years. "
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Miracles
Governance
" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "
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Her
Family
" In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that. "
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Story
You
Him
" You all must realize that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others - hundreds who languished in prison and died. Many unsung and unknown heroes of the struggle. "
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Man
Struggle
Only
" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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Ideas
Identify
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" I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too. "
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Food
Home
" We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong. "
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Our
Wrong
Problems
" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "
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My Life
Believe
Justice
" We shall liberate our country. "
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Shall
Country
Liberate
" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "
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Lies
Solution
Problems
" I knew what it is to hate. "
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Hate
Knew
" You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid. "
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Air
You
" One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long. "
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Down
People
" I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong. "
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Lost
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" This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "
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Necks
Mandela
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First
Me
" I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela's product. I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy. "
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Enemy
Country
" Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out. "
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Those
My Soul
Out
" I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people. "
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Done
Justice
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