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

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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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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