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Julia Mavimbela Quotes

1917–2000 South Africa

Julia Nompi Mavimbela (20 December 1917 – 16 July 2000) was a schoolteacher and community leader in South Africa. When public schools were closed because of the 1976 Soweto uprising, Mavimbela taught schoolchildren in Soweto how to garden and how to read.

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Let us dig the soil of bitterness, throw in a seed, show love, and see what fruits will grow. Love will not come without forgiving others. Where there was a bloodstain, a beautiful flower must grow.

It is important for women to be aware of their common lot. It is important for women to stand together and rise together to meet our common enemies—illiteracy, poverty, crime, disease, and stupid, unjust laws that have made women feel so helpless as to be hopeless.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julia Mavimbela (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.