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" I knew what it is to hate. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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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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" Politicians are not lovers. "

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

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

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" 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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" 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 am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear. "

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

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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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" 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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" I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "

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

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