Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Quotes

South African - Activist | September 26, 1936 - April 2, 2018

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

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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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Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

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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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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 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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We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.

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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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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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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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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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