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

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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. "

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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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" Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down. "

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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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" I never talk about my private life. "

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" 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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" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "

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" 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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