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

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "

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" I knew what it is to hate. "

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

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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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" Politicians are not lovers. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "

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