South African - Activist | September 26, 1936 - April 2, 2018
I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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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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Politicians are not lovers.
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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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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 knew what it is to hate.
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This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.
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The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough.
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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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I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.
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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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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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