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" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Carry
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" It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "
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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 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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" The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife. "
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Me
" 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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" I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after. "
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" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "
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Than
Myself
" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
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Police
Tough
Survive
" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "
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Why
Wonder
Much
" I knew what it is to hate. "
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Hate
Knew
" 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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Duty
Place
Me
" 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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My Soul
Out
" We shall liberate our country. "
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Shall
Country
Liberate
" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "
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My Life
Believe
Justice
" The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention. "
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Help
You
Government
" 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
" I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything. "
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Never
Am
Everything
" 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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Family
Law
Me
" 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
Name
" Politicians are not lovers. "
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Lovers
Politicians
" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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Ideas
Identify
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" 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 never talk about my private life. "
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Private
Private Life
Never
" I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live. I would never betray my roots in that way. "
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Live
People
Rich
" This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "
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Name
Necks
Mandela