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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Quotes

1936–2018 South Africa

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018, also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, and the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1994 to 2003, and was a deputy minister of arts and culture from 1994 to 1996.

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To those who oppose us, we say, Strike the woman, and you strike the rock.

I decided I will fight them to the last drop of my blood, and I will show them that women are going to bring about change in South Africa, and we did.

I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.

"It has never been about me, the person. I’ve never regarded myself as an individual, I’m just part of this whole liberation machine … I always talk about us - as we - because I’m just part of the whole collective."

If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we co-operate with other groups. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptance of inferiority.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.