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" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Why
Wonder
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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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" 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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" 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 learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
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Her
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