47 Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone.

We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.