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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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Husband
Try
Think
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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 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 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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" Politicians are not lovers. "
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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 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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" I never talk about my private life. "
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Private Life
Never
" 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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Am
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" This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "
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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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Place
Me
" 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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Pain
Moment
" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "
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My Life
Believe
Justice
" 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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Long
Down
People
" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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Ideas
Identify
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" We shall liberate our country. "
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Shall
Country
Liberate
" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
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Police
Tough
Survive
" 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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I Am
Man
Never
" 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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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. "
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Air
You
" 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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Journalist
" 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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Much
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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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Nothing
Any
Done
" We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. "
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Jail
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Family
" 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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Emotion
You
" 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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She
Son
Mother
" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "
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Wonder
Much