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

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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

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

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" Politicians are not lovers. "

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

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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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" 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 am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything. "

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" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her 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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" 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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" 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 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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" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "

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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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