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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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Those
My Soul
Out
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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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" We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. "
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" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "
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" We shall liberate our country. "
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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 identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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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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" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "
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World
Responsibility
" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "
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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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Gain
Most
" 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
" 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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Wrong
Problems
" 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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Day
Pain
Moment
" 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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Struggle
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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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Story
You
Him
" 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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Me
Food
Home
" 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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Miracles
Governance
" 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
" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "
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Her
Family
" 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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Fight
Life
" 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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Husband
Try
Think
" 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
" 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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Hope
Air
You
" 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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Man
Never
" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "
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Problems
Majority
Enough
" I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people. "
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Done
Justice
Name
" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "
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Person
Flowers
" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "
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