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" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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" To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter. "

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

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "

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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 am a living symbol of the white man's fear. I never realized how deeply embedded this fear is until I came to Brandfort. "

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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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" 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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" There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known. "

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

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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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" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "

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

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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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" Politicians are not lovers. "

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

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" 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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