I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people.
Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.
We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
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.
We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it.
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.
There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.
I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.
I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.
We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.
I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.
You all must realize that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others - hundreds who languished in prison and died. Many unsung and unknown heroes of the struggle.
I never talk about my private life.
Politicians are not lovers.
It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family.
No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us.
I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.
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.
The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.
You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
