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" We shall liberate our country. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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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'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "

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

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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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" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "

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" I never talk about my private life. "

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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 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 am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "

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

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" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "

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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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