Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

We have no guns – we have only stones, boxes of matches and petrol. Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindsets of the youth of today.

I cannot forgive him [Nelson Mandela] for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize with his jailer De Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think De Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart? He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed.

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!

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

It was in the townships where we shed so much blood. Nothing could have been achieved without the sacrifice of the people. Black people.

The system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

Quite apart from the superpower confrontation, the US was committed to restoring the traditional conservative order. To achieve this aim, it was necessary to destroy the anti-fascist resistance, often in favor of Nazi and fascist collaborators, to weaken…popular organizations.

A reporter’s ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

The only way we could get what most of the population wants with regard to health care is either by a large-scale popular movement, which would mean moving towards democracy and nobody in power is going to want that, or else if the business community decides that it’s good for them.

The ‘corporatization of America’ during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

Trumpism is one of many manifestations of the effects of the neoliberal policies of the past generation. These have led to extreme concentration of wealth along with stagnation for the majority.

[on Trump] I’m puzzled by that. People who do it are inflicting damage to the country’s domestic political situation, incapacitating the president and showing a lack of respect to voters who cast their ballots for him.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, ‘You’re either with us or against us.’

I’m eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they’ve trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.