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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. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Our
Wrong
Problems
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "
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Solution
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" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "
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" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "
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Than
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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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" 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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You
" 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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Lost
Men
" 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
" 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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Try
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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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Name
" 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
" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "
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Carry
Person
Flowers
" 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
" 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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Moment
" I knew what it is to hate. "
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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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Majority
Enough
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" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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Identify
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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 was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "
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