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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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Freedom
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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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" 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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" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
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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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" 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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" No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us. "
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" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "
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" This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "
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" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "
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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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Air
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" I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong. "
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Lost
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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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Food
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" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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Ideas
Identify
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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 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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Am
Everything
" I never talk about my private life. "
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Private Life
Never
" 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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Duty
Place
Me
" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Try
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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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