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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. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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" I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "

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

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

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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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" 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 brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment. "

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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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" I never talk about my private life. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" I knew what it is to hate. "

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

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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 believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "

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

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

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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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