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" Politicians are not lovers. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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" I knew what it is to hate. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "

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

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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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