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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. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "

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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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" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "

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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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" We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. "

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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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" 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 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 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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" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "

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" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "

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" 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. "

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" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "

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