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" I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Married
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Had
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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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Everything
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You
" 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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Day
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Moment
" 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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" 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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Long
Down
People
" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "
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Majority
Enough
" 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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Apartheid
Had
Survive
" 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
Relationship
Enemy
Country
" We shall liberate our country. "
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Shall
Country
Liberate
" Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Those
My Soul
Out
" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Lies
Solution
Problems
" We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Our
Wrong
Problems
" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Why
Wonder
Much
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Dream
Black
Black And White
" I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Done
Justice
Name
" It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
My Own
Gain
Most
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
I Am
Man
Never
" Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Down
Us
Prison
" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
My Life
Believe
Justice
" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Destiny
World
Responsibility
" I knew what it is to hate. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Hate
Knew
" Politicians are not lovers. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Lovers
Politicians
" There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Nothing
Any
Done
" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Police
Tough
Survive
" You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Hope
Air
You
" 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
" To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Me
Fighter
Journalist
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Me
Food
Home
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Story
You
Him
" The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Help
You
Government
" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Ideas
Identify
Malcolm X