There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
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… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
We talk of a rainbow nation - in a country that remains dichotomized between black and white. We must acknowledge that the rainbow, in… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
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… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
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… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
