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" It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
My Own
Gain
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" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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Identify
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" 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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Our
Wrong
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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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Live
People
Rich
" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "
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Carry
Person
Flowers
" 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
" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "
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Lies
Solution
Problems
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Duty
Place
Me
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Husband
Try
Think
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
She
Son
Mother
" To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Me
Fighter
Journalist
" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
My Life
Believe
Justice
" 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
" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Police
Tough
Survive
" We shall liberate our country. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Shall
Country
Liberate
" I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Married
Marriage
Had
" Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Those
My Soul
Out
" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Why
Wonder
Much
" There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Nothing
Any
Done
" I knew what it is to hate. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Hate
Knew
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
President
First
Me
" You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Hope
Air
You
" Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Down
Us
Prison
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Day
Pain
Moment
" I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Done
Justice
Name
" I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Never
Am
Everything
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
I Am
Man
Never
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Family
Law
Me
" 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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Me
Food
Home
" 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
Fight
Life
" We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Sent
Apartheid
Jail