Winnie Madikizela Mandela Quotes Quotes

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.
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.
I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.
I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone.
I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.
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.
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.
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.
I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.
I knew what it is to hate.
I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.
I never talk about my private life.
I often wonder why I attract so much criticism.
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.
I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had.
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.
I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.
I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people.
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.
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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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Profession
Activist
BirthDate
26 September, 1936
DeathDate
02 April, 2018
Country
South Africa
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