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" 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. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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" It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive. "

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" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "

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" We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. "

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" 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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" 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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" As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end. "

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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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" The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment. "

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" Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down. "

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" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "

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" There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known. "

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" I never talk about my private life. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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 believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain. "

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" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "

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" 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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" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "

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" 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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" We shall liberate our country. "

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" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "

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" I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people. "

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