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

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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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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" 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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" We shall liberate our country. "

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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 knew what it is to hate. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I never talk about my private life. "

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

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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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" It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain. "

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