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" We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Sent
Apartheid
Jail
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" I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela's product. I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy. "
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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 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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" 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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" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "
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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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" 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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" This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "
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" We shall liberate our country. "
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" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "
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" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "
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Believe
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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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Never
Am
Everything
" The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. "
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Solution
Problems
" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
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Ideas
Identify
Malcolm X
" I knew what it is to hate. "
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Hate
Knew
" 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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Apartheid
Had
Survive
" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "
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Than
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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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Long
Down
People
" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "
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Destiny
World
Responsibility
" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Carry
Person
Flowers
" 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
" 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
" 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
Determined
" 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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Fighter
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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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Air
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
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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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Wrong
Problems
" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "
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Police
Tough
Survive
" 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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Help
You
Government
" 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
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