Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Quotes

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Profession : Activist

Birth : September 26, 1936

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

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

We talk of a rainbow nation - in a country that remains dichotomized between black and white. We must acknowledge that the rainbow, in fact, is still a dream.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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 day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

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.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

We shall liberate our country.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

I am a living symbol of the white man's fear. I never realized how deeply embedded this fear is until I came to Brandfort.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela