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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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Women
Lost
Men
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" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
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" I never talk about my private life. "
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Private Life
Never
" We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong. "
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Wrong
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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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" 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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Out
" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "
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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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First
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" I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "
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Marriage
Had
" It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain. "
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Gain
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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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Apartheid
Had
Survive
" We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. "
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Sent
Apartheid
Jail
" I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people. "
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Done
Justice
Name
" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "
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Destiny
World
Responsibility
" 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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Husband
Try
Think
" 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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Story
You
Him
" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "
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Carry
Person
Flowers
" 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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Never
Am
Everything
" 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
" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "
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Dream
Her
Family
" 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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Family
Law
Me
" 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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Man
Much
Determined
" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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Ideas
Identify
Malcolm X
" 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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Live
People
Rich
" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "
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Lies
Solution
Problems
" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "
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Problems
Majority
Enough
" 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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Me
Food
Home
" 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 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
Emotion
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
Pain
Moment
" We shall liberate our country. "
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Shall
Country
Liberate